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A Mexican professional women’s football club urged authorities Friday to do more to tackle gender violence, after cyber-harassment forced one of its players to seek a transfer abroad.
Club America said this week that Scarlett Camberos, who has also played for the national team, planned to move to the United States due to “digital violence.”
The Mexico City-based team said that it was in the process of arranging a transfer for the 22-year-old to Angel City FC in Los Angeles.
“What happened recently in terms of harassment and gender violence cannot be repeated in football or in any other space in Mexico,” Club America manager Angel Villacampa tweeted Friday.
“The authorities must guarantee all women respect and care,” he added.
Club America said that despite taking all possible legal steps to bring the man accused of harassing Camberos to justice, he had received only 36 hours of house arrest.
The player and her family feel that the authorities’ response does not offer “sufficient guarantees for her emotional stability, her development as a person and for a life free of violence,” it added.
