The president of the Diputación de Pontevedra, Carmela
Silva, has shown its support for to the player from Pontevedra Paula Dapena who refused to observe a minute of silence in tribute to Maradona and has warned that “Not alone” to the threats it receives.
“Let all the madmen that they are attacking Paula who has all the women who we believe in equality by her side, “Silva has defended, who has assured that” whoever harms her it hurts us all“.
Dapena's conduct is, the provincial president added, a “gesture of defense of feminist thought“that she herself, has underlined, support and clap.
The socialist leader has highlighted in statements to the press that the athlete from Pontevedra is a “brave woman” for having remained in his ideals even “knowing what it was going to mean.”
To be by his side, Carmela Silva has insisted, “is the only decent thing to do“.” If those who today fiercely attack Paula played as children with egalitarian toysThey would also be by his side, “said the president of the Pontevedra County Council.
Silva has concluded by assuring that Spanish society must “advance education“so that this country” has more Paulas “and fewer men who threaten women” when you empower yourself and say what you think openly and without fear. “
The player from Viajes InterRías, a Pontevedra team of the second category of national football, turned his back on his companions team and the rivals of Deportivo Abanca in the minute of silence observed by former Argentine soccer player Diego Armando Maradona before the friendly that faced them in the Ciudad Deportiva de Abegondo.