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ESPN News Services
Jul 23, 2025, 03:22 PM ET
Soccer prima Javier "Chicharito" Hernández is facing a backlash from Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum and others for remarks posted connected his societal media accounts astir sex roles.
"Chicharito is simply a precise bully shot player," Sheinbaum said astatine a property league Wednesday. "But erstwhile it comes to his sentiment connected women ... helium inactive has a batch to learn."
She described the erstwhile Mexico international's ideas arsenic "very sexist."
The erstwhile Manchester United and Real Madrid striker, who presently plays for Chivas, is injured and missed the archetypal 2 matches of the Apertura tournament.
Over the weekend, helium posted respective reels and videos, chiefly connected Instagram.
"Don't beryllium acrophobic to beryllium women, to let yourselves to beryllium led by a man," the 37-year-old Hernández said. "Women, you are failing, you are eradicating masculinity, making nine hypersensitive."
Hernández, the all-time starring scorer for the Mexican nationalist squad with 52 goals, returned to Mexico past twelvemonth by signing a two-year woody with Chivas, the squad wherever helium began his nonrecreational vocation successful 2006.
"You women request to larn to judge and grant masculinity," helium said successful different 1 of his posts.
In another, helium said to the camera: "You privation a antheral to provide, but for you, cleaning is patriarchal oppression ... interesting."
Sheinbaum, a 63-year-old scientist, was elected past twelvemonth arsenic the archetypal pistillate president successful the country's 200-year history.
"I'm a mother, I'm a grandmother, I'm besides a housewife," the president added Wednesday. "But I'm besides the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. Women tin beryllium immoderate we want."
Hernández is simply a divorced begetter of 2 who has a wont of kneeling successful the mediate of the transportation to commune earlier the commencement of matches. He began creating contented for a YouTube transmission wherever helium portrayed his beingness arsenic a subordinate with West Ham and his marriage.
Hernández had a debased illustration connected societal media earlier hiring beingness manager Diego Dreyfus, to whom galore property overmuch of "Chicharito's" caller persona.
Criticism followed his caller statements, with immoderate urging him to bounds himself to soccer, fixed that his show since returning to the Mexican league past twelvemonth has not been arsenic expected.
Hernández, who besides played for Bayer Leverkusen, West Ham, Sevilla and the LA Galaxy has scored conscionable 2 goals successful 25 matches successful his archetypal 2 tournaments backmost successful Mexico.
Neither Chivas nor the Mexican Football Federation has yet commented.
The Federation's codification of morals provides for sanctions for affiliated members for violative oregon discriminatory statements, but truthful far, officials person not sanctioned anyone for misogynistic comments. Earlier this twelvemonth businessman Ricardo Salinas Pliego, the proprietor of the Mazatlán and Puebla clubs, made harsh statements astir pistillate journalists and was near unpunished.
Chicharito has not played for the nationalist squad since 2019 amid reports astatine the clip that he, alongside different players, organized a non-authorized enactment successful New York aft a lucifer against the United States.
Information from The Associated Press was utilized successful this report.
