A controversial friendly game between Athletic Bilbao’s professional women’s team against adolescent players from the quarries of the same club (between the ages of 14 and 16) ended with a 6-0 win in favor of the men’s team.
In social networks, Bilbao was widely criticized for deploying its women’s starting team against a squad of postpubertal men aged 14, 15 and 16 years. But what sparked the most comments was the Twitter publicity they made of the marker.
The Basque women’s team finished fifth in the last Iberdrola League and is a professional team, while the young people who were on the court were part of the A and B team of the youth quarries, many of them newcomers during the transfer market.
At the end of 90 minutes, the overwhelming scoreboard generated a stir on social networks, many of them derogatory towards women’s football.
Atlético de Madrid player Virginia Torrecilla, one of the stars of the League, published a comment from a netizen who made fun of women’s football.
“Can you tell me what to do with this guy? Please … because my p … patience is running out! You play with your colleagues ‘the drunks’ and see if you beat the 14-year-olds! Which is always the same If you don’t like futfem, don’t follow it, period! “, Said the player on her Twitter account.
Athletic Femenino is a professional team and has competed in the first division of women’s football in Spain since it was formed in 2002. It has won five league titles, the last in 2016, making it the second most successful women’s team in Spain. Spain after Barcelona.
It is not the first time that this type of friendliness has been played, in 2017 the United States team, world champion, was defeated 5-2 against teenagers from the Dallas academy. A year earlier, the Australian women’s team preparing for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics suffered a 7-0 defeat by a team under 15 years of age.