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The chauvinistic statement of Vasco da Gama's coach, the Argentine Ramon Dias, caused far more echoes in the Brazilian media than the loss of the team from Rio de Janeiro to Red Bull in Argentina tonight (between Wednesday and Thursday). While analyzing the game that ended 2:1 to his detriment, Dias criticized the refereeing in Vasco's previous game, which she even won, and said: "We can't talk much about the referees because there is the VAR, and the fact that the decisions in the VAR have to be made Isha, it seems complicated to me, because football is so dynamic."
Naturally and naturally, Vasco's coach's comment was met with rejection and criticism towards him, both from fans and journalists. "Worse than Ramon Diaz's disgusting statement, it reveals how misogynistic and toxic the atmosphere in soccer still is for women," media personality Daniel Kaiser tweeted. Reporter Gilmer Ferreira also condemned: "an unfortunate sexist comment."
Commentator Lucas Pedrosa wrote online: "This is a sexist statement, an obvious and serious mistake. Most of the matches in Brazil are refereed by men, most of them not good, who make a lot of mistakes all the time."
Dias quickly realized that his words were out of place, to say the least, and stood in front of the microphones again to apologize: "If anything I said was misinterpreted, I apologize. What I was trying to say is that one person cannot make such important decisions in football. I didn't mean for things to be interpreted differently." .
Vasco da Gama also issued a statement on the subject: "We regret the words of coach Ramon Dias and recall our commitment to strengthening the means and educational guidelines required in accordance with the club's values and principles. We apologize, and so does our coach."