International Women’s Day was celebrated on Friday, March 8. During this date, several sports institutions created content for their social networks to commemorate this celebration. Sporting Gijón made a video, but it was criticized on social networks.
The Spanish team, which plays in the second division, He published a video on his social networks in which a girl appears as the protagonist at the El Molinón Municipal Stadium.
However, the audiovisual begins with the young woman with a brush and a tube that she uses to erase the line that marks the middle of the field. In the rest of the video, the girl marks the Venus symbol within the field.
However, the first part of the video was what generated a lot of controversy on social media. Without a doubt, it was one of the pieces that had the most interaction throughout the day.
Even, Carmen Moriyón, mayor of Gijón, questioned the publication of the video and encouraged it to be deleted from social networks. But Sporting Gijón did not eliminate him. The club simply uploaded the video again, but without the controversial part.
Disgust on Women’s Day
The video published by Sporting Gijón reached many people. According to data from the social network X (former Twitter), The post reached 31 million users on the platform.
In view of the negative comments and ridicule, The team had to make a clarification statement. The person in charge of “putting the chest to the bullets” was Carlos Andrés Llamasclub communications manager.
“I am responsible and I accept the error in the video published today. The idea arose to show how our player draws the symbol of Venus in El Molinón, with all the visual force of that image. In that process you had to erase the whitewash from a line and that is the initial part of the video. To then be able to paint the symbol so that it could be seen clearly and sharply from an overhead plane. In any case, it was an unnecessary sequence. A poorly executed idea. I apologize“Llamas said.
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