Guy Roux under fire for comments on women’s football | OneFootball

Former AJ Auxerre coach Guy Roux has sparked controversy with remarks about women’s football, and the row intensified on Monday, days after commentator Daniel Bravo was suspended for sexist comments about Gaëtane Thiney.

"I have a lot of respect for these young women who play their favourite sport," Roux said. "But if you ask me whether women’s matches are spectacular, I point to D1 games played in front of 800 spectators," he told L'Est Eclair last week.

At 87, he added: "A woman is made to bring children into the world, with a wider pelvis. And football is not made for wide pelvises. The best female players are built like boys."

He continued: "Our U14s beat our senior women recently. As the women now play in the second division, it would probably be the U15s who would beat them today." Auxerre’s women lead the second tier, one point ahead of Toulouse and six ahead of Saint-Malo.

Roux has a history of disparaging comments about the women’s game. In May, during Djibril Cissé’s jubilee, he described the match as much slower and likened it to a women’s football game.

Source: Le Progres