• Leganés: Athletic subscribes to the 'English media'

For some time now, without knowing very well how, Iago Herrerín has become the pim-pam-pum doll for a part of Athletic fans in social networks. And when that happens, in a virtual and often anonymous world in which there seems to be open bar to say any barbarity, the limits of sports criticism tend to be exceeded.

The doorman has shown his fatigue at this situation by making public the private messages that a user sends him on Instagram. "And so every day," Herrerín denounces before the cataract of offensive messages he receives. Those who publish speak for themselves: " Get rid of Athletic fucking useless . Go to Castro and a fucking human waste." "You're a fucking cancer." "The worst I've seen in Athletic Long." "In the end you will have to break your bones so that at least you don't play here anymore." Messages that caused a wave of solidarity towards the goalkeeper in those same social networks in which, as in any other scenario of life, there is everything.

The insults for their physical appearance and for a supposed overweight are also recurring: "It is very simple to put on the face of another or a false profile and start insulting, belittling or criticizing. In football, in Spain people are a bit ignorant in that sense. You go to other countries, like in England, and there is much more respect for the opponents and for the players. But when you do it on your own hobby it makes you very angry . The day someone is calling me fat, I invite you Lezama to come with me to train, "said the goalkeeper a few weeks ago.

In this specific case, Herrerín had been a starter by surprise in the match that Athletic played on Wednesday in Butarque . Despite the fact that the holder is Unai Simón, the goalkeeper with less goals so far in the league, Gaizka Garitano decided to reward the Vizcaino goalkeeper, who, last year was fifth in the Zamora Trophy behind Oblak. , Ter Stegen, David Soria and Neto.

Already at the time of knowing their ownership, the networks were filled with insults towards Herrerín himself and towards Garitano for putting him . Criticism (both reasonable and hurtful) multiplied after both Leganés, in a direct free kick by Oscar Rodriguez in which Herrerín sees how the ball enters almost through the center of the goal. In fact, he recognized him after the duel: "It's a ball where I can or should have done more." More gasoline for those who believe that in social networks everything goes.

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