LONDON, United Kingdom, Jul 24 – Former Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez has been fined and warned about his future conduct after making sexist remarks on social media.
The Mexican Football Federation (FMF) stated the 37-year-old, now with Liga MX aspect Chivas, made a sequence of statements “selling sexist stereotypes which can be thought-about media violence and go towards gender equality in sport” on TikTok.
The striker stated on social media that girls are “failing” and “eradicating masculinity”.
“Don’t be afraid to be girls, to permit yourselves to be led by a person,” stated the previous Mexico captain.
The feedback, which have been made final weekend, have been met with a backlash in Mexico.
President Claudia Sheinbaum, the nation’s first feminine president, stated: “Chicharito is an excellent soccer [player] however relating to his opinion on girls… he nonetheless has so much to be taught.”
In a joint assertion, the FMF and Mexico’s high males’s and ladies’s leagues stated the Gender and Diversity Commission has began an investigation “that seeks to stop and punish this behaviour” and it’ll “take extra extreme measures within the occasion of a repeat offence”.
Chivas stated the feedback have been “opposite to the ideas and values” of the membership and that they’d taken “applicable motion” towards Hernandez, although they didn’t specify which motion.
Hernandez, Mexico’s all-time main scorer, joined Manchester United from Chivas in 2010.
He spent 4 years at Old Trafford, profitable the Premier League twice.
After spells with Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen, he returned to the Premier League with West Ham for a three-season stint between 2017 and 2020.
Hernandez then joined Sevilla from the Hammers, earlier than spending 4 seasons with MLS aspect Los Angeles Galaxy.
He returned to former membership Chivas in 2023, signing a two-year deal.
