To protest machismo, women played soccer in Mexico City’s central square
LA TimesFemale soccer groups play on Mexico City´s main square, the Zocalo, on Wednesday to protest the machismo in the sport.. “There’s a different way to play the sport that’s contrary to the machista practices, the discrimination, which promotes companionship and solidarity,” said Pilar Tlatempa, a 26-year-old member of Barra Feminista, one of several women’s soccer groups that organized the event, held Wednesday afternoon. Hampered by societal machismo and a long tradition of ambivalence about females participating in professional sports, women’s soccer has long struggled to gain a foothold in Mexico, where the men’s game is the national pastime. “I could never have imagined it,” Shelma Cerrillo, a 34-year-old member of the Barra Feminista, said of the creation of the women’s league. “There’s a lot of contempt,” said Frida Toimil, 28, who co-founded her own women’s soccer group called Morras Futboleras.
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