Czech players who told female referee to return âto the cookerâ sent to train with womenâs team
Lukas Vacha and Tomas Koubek, who play professional football for Sparta Prague, have been instructed by the club to train with the womenâs team after the duo tweeted a picture of a female assistant referee with a caption reading âto the cooker.â The tweet is no longer available on Twitter.
The Czech FA chairman and Sparta Prague condemned both Lukas Vacha and Tomas Koubek, and the duo
The players unleashed their frustration when Ratajova failed to notice a clear-cut offside in the 92nd minute against Zbrojovka Brno which was quickly followed by a goal by Alois
During the post-match interview, goalkeeper Tomas Koubek told the media,âIn my opinion, women should stay at the stove and not officiate menâs football.â Vacha, on the other hand, tweeted the assistant refereeâs photo with a caption reading âTo the cookerâ.
Czech FA chairman, Miroslav Pelta, was extremely critical of the two players calling their actions after the match âtotally unacceptableâ. Pelta was quoted saying, âI would like to emphasise that women are and will be an important part of football and their presence in its structures and at the stands is important for football.â
âFootball belongs to the wide public including families and women. We are trying to accommodate them and such statements are totally unacceptable. It will certainly be a topic at the next FA executive board meeting and I expect the disciplinary committee to react to it in a corresponding way.â
In a statement issued by Sparta, the club told the players that âsome boundariesâ cannot be crossed, and the club appointed the pair as ambassadors to the womenâs team to see âthat the women can be skilful somewhere else than at the stoveâ.
Adam Kotalik, the Sparta general director, announced in a statement released by the club, âAs much as I understand that the boys were full of emotions after the finish of yesterdayâs game, there are some boundaries that they can not cross in their statements.
âAs well as serving as ambassadors of the team at the Uefa Womenâs Champions League games they will both report to the boss of Sparta womenâs teams Dusan Zovinec and will take part at some of the training sessions with one of our womenâs team to see with their own eyes that the women can be skilful somewhere else than at the stove, too.â
Ratajova, too, was handed a four-game suspension for two crucial errors during the game. Both players used Facebook to apologise for their actions saying that the statements were aimed at the official for making an error and ânot to ant other women.â
âI would like to make clear on my statement. The comment was aimed at the specific error that influenced the result of the game, not at any other women. If any of them feel offended by it, I would like to make myself clear that it was not meant in a chauvinistic way at all. I support women in âmale postsâ and I support womenâs football, too,â Vacha explained on his page.
âYesterday in Brno, a mistake occurred that brought many emotions ⊠I said a sentence right after the game that I feel sorry for now and I would like to apologise to all the women. It was not meant in a chauvinistic way, the words were aimed at a specific person and a specific situation that occurred during the game. At the opposite, I love my girls and want them to achieve something in their lives that we can be proud of,â Koubek said echoing his team-mates views.
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