Posted on 05/16/2015 10:30:28 AM PDT by Steelfish
Italian Official Under Fire For Allegedly Calling Female Footballers ‘A Bunch of Lesbians’
Marcus Christenson 16 May 2015 An Italian football official is under pressure to resign after allegedly referring to female players as a “bunch of lesbians”. Felice Belloli, the president of the county’s amateur football association, allegedly made the comments when discussing funding for women’s football in the country.
The Italian Football Association (FIGC) opened an investigation on Friday after it was sent the minutes of the meeting of the Lega Nazionale Dilettanti (LND). Belloli allegedly said: “That’s enough, we can’t always talk about giving money to this bunch of lesbians,” but on Friday denied having used those words. “I never signed those minutes,” Belloli told La Gazzetta dello Sport. “Can you see my signature on them? No, and I can tell you why – because minutes can be taken and amended by anybody. I know how the minutes are taken at the LND. All I am saying is that I did not utter that phrase.”
However, Sonia Pessotto, a former player and a member of the council that looks after women’s football for the FIGC, said on Friday that she was at the meeting and that Belloli had used the term. “I was there and he did use the phrase ‘bunch of lesbians’. Now he has to resign from his position as the president of the amateur football association.”
Luisa Rizzitelli, the president of Assist, the national association for female athletes, agreed that Belloli should resign. “We don’t consider the word lesbian to be offensive, but in this context it is unacceptable and homophobic,” she told Tutto Sport. “Obviously, the Italian women’s team winning bronze in the World Cup last year is not enough for him to respect athletes in this discipline, their coaches and managers.”
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I don’t know anything about Italian women’s football.
Is the guy right?
If he’s right, he can say that.
Are we sure that Mussolini was shot? I half suspect he’s still alive.
Let him come over here and work for the WNBA.
So are they lesbians?
Why would SHE ...
say something like ..
"Luisa Rizzitelli, the president of Assist, the national association for female athletes, agreed that Belloli should resign. “We don’t consider the word lesbian to be offensive, but in this context it is unacceptable and homophobic,”
The thought police left have themselves a bit of a dilemma here. On the one hand, calling them lesbians shouldn’t be considered an insult according to leftist dogma. On the other hand, it feels like an insult.
They’re doing everything but denying it.
I thought Lesbians and Gays are to be worshipped and adored and admired for their “courage”. Why is he in trouble for calling them that?
So are they lesbians?
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I played soccer 1978-1983
by the end of my career, there were many lesbos playing soccer. Not so when I stared out. I got too embarassed being associated as a soccer player which meant gay. I am not now, nor have I ever been a lesbian.
(political science major)
My gaydar is off the scale!
Those are men, right?
Most of the women softball players in the US could also shotput in the Olympics. Just sayin’.
So which card will be played on this? The “Not That There’s Anything Wrong With It!” one, or the “I. AM. HURT. &. OUT. RAGED!!!” one? How much spare Euros or hidden Lira does each side have available for ‘a charitable contribution’.
Those are men, right?”
Hard to tell anymore. Never figured out why a female would want to play American football anyway. Really wish they would call soccer soccer. Just gets too confusing.
Stop your microaggressions. /s
Players #8, #3, and #6 (all standing in back row), need to reduce their Testosterone and Androgen levels asap.
At this rate of metamorphosis, they’ll have to join the men’s team before the Soccer Season Playoffs are concluded.
Player #2. has a case of ‘busy hands’.
lol
Half of the players on the US woman’s soccer team are lesbian. Wambach and Rapinoe even bring their “wives” to the games.
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