Marta Cox has threatened to not play for Panama once more after the president of Panama’s soccer federation (FEPAFUT) known as her “fats” and “out of form”.
Manuel Arias made the feedback after Cox complained in regards to the services in Panama following the staff’s group exit on the Concacaf W Gold Cup final month.
Gamers union Fifpro known as the president’s feedback “unacceptable”.
“If the sort of state of affairs turns into a continuing, I can’t return for the nationwide staff,” mentioned midfielder Cox.
“There have been phrases used to explain me that actually harm me and have been surprising.”
The 26-year-old, who performs for Tijuana in Mexico’s Liga MX Femenil, scored Panama’s first Girls’s World Cup objective final summer season – a 35-yard free-kick throughout their 6-3 defeat by France.
Panama have been nonetheless eradicated after failing to earn a degree throughout their three group video games, simply as they have been within the inaugural Concacaf W Gold Cup, which concludes on Sunday with hosts the USA going through Brazil within the closing.
Cox’s feedback angered FEPAFUT president Arias, who mentioned: “Marta Cox stopped to speak about our league. She’s out of form, she’s fats, she could not transfer on the pitch.
“It’s extremely simple to speak, however she would not know something in regards to the Panama league for years. She would not know what is going on on right here.”
‘There may be nonetheless much more work to do’
Panama made their first Girls’s World Cup look final yr, conceding 11 targets and scoring three, and within the Gold Cup they conceded 13 whereas scoring only one.
In an announcement by means of Panama’s Affiliation of Skilled Footballers, Cox mentioned: “After the World Cup, I anticipated a lot extra. That want to see regular progress led me to talk out after an unlucky efficiency within the Gold Cup.
“We’re the primary to recognise that we have been lower than the usual of the match, however that very same introspection should transcend simply the gamers.”
FEPAFUT has posted an apology for Arias’ feedback, saying that “he himself has pledged that it’s going to not be repeated”.
The federation added: “On Worldwide Girls’s Day… we remorse the unlucky time period utilized by our president.
“Within the federation we’re dedicated to proceed working for girls’s soccer, as we have now been doing for the final 5 years by means of sports activities and coaching programmes targeted on ladies.
“That mentioned, we all know that there’s nonetheless much more work to do.”
