This week, one German team proved that there is no room for prejudice on the soccer pitch when it brilliantly chastised midfielder Kerem Demirbay for spewing a sexist remark at a female referee.
After Demirbay received a yellow card from the official in question, he upbraided her, supposedly telling her that “women have no place in men’s football.”
Well, it appears that his team, Fortuna Düsseldorf, disagrees, as -- along with a league-mandated suspension -- the organization “ordered” Demirbay to officiate a junior league girls' match to welcome him into the 21st century and teach him a lesson.
Being a referee is a notoriously hard job. Being a female referee in a men’s league is even more difficult. Why 6-foot-1-inch Demirbay would feel the need to verbally harass a female official is beyond us, but we can only hope that his team’s perfectly appropriate punishment leads him and others like him to think next time before they spread such misogynistic nonsense.
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