Víctor Gutiérrez,
CN Terrassa player
, denounced through social networks that he received from a rival, a member of CN Sabadell, homophobic insults during and at the end of the water polo Division of Honor game that both teams played this Saturday.
"Normally I am always here to tell you things from a positive point of view and do constructive activism, always trying to send a message that you
have to lose your fear of showing yourself as you are,
" said the Spanish international in a video.
Gutiérrez explained that he experienced an "episode of homophobia" because a Sabadell player, who did not want to give his name,
called him a "fag" during the game
.
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"I have not wanted to give it importance because we all say things at 200 beats that we later regret. But at the end of the game I
did not want to shake his hand
for that reason he had told me and he has called me a fag again," he said.
"The stands, a colleague of mine has heard it and I am quite affected.
I am proud of who I am,
of being homosexual, gay, fag, which for me is not an insult, but it has struck a chord," added Gutiérrez, who he remembered, through tears, that he has lived through other similar episodes, but that he never wanted to report them because he preferred "to launch a conciliatory message."
"But I do not want to let it pass more," said the water polo player, who stressed that he advocates
"zero tolerance"
with this type of behavior and that if he is silent again he would do "a disservice" to water polo, sport and its ideals.
Gutiérrez, who insisted that he is "proud" of his condition, said that he explained it to the referees, but that they, having not heard anything, could not include the facts in the minutes.
However, he assured that now "the ball is a bit in the hands of the Spanish Swimming Federation."
"I would be very angry if the Federation looked the other way and did not take action on the matter," he added.
"I wanted to send a message to those who may be listening to me, that not a comment or an insult or a hundred put fear in your body. That
it is not worth living behind the mask
for a second, that life is wonderful and each one has to show themselves as they are with pride, because that's how we are, "he concluded.
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