Women's team to report match officials over misogynistic insults

A women's football team in Spain are to lodge a complaint against male match officials over claims of misogynistic insults during a league fixture at the weekend.

Valladolid-based Juventud Rondilla were contesting an away game at Salamanca side Sporting Garrido on Sunday when the referee and one of his assistants are said to have begun verbally abusing the visitors.

As initially revealed by the newspaper Tribuna de Valladolid, the pair - from Salamanca - are alleged to have addressed the female footballers using the phrases "jodeos", "guarras" and "mamarla" (which roughly translate as "fuck you", "you sluts" and "suck it").

Juventud Rondilla are preparing to report the two officials in writing to the Castile-León Football Federation in the coming days.

"Everything was going normally until they went 2-1 up..."

The club's matchday delegate, Adrián Fraile, spoke to Diario AS about the comments their players say they received during the 4-1 defeat.

"Everything was going normally until they went 2-1 up on us in the second half," Fraile said of the clash, which took place in the Segunda Regional Femenina division.

"Then the assistant referee started saying to the girls: 'Jodeos, guarras, a mamarla', and the referee is calling them 'guarras' on every foul [awarded against them].

"I hope he never referees us again"

"The players being substituted start telling us on the bench and when the game finishes we go to ask for an explanation, without making any threats or raising our voices.

"Then the referee starts to get worked up, saying he's going to call the police, and they shut themselves in their dressing room."

Fraile adds that the third member of the officiating team admitted to Juventud Rondilla's players that his colleagues "tend to behave like that".

"Nothing like this had ever happened to us before," Fraile continues. "This man has never refereed us before and I hope he never does again."