Distressed, with a broken voice, florence mark the girl who Condemned the now former technical director of women’s football at Boca Juniors, Jorge Martinez Gave a detailed description of the misbehavior that happened to him. “All the time I was afraid to cross my path. I was afraid of getting raped.” The victim agreed.
During the interview with TN channel, Marco could not hide the sadness and “disgust” he has felt in recent days. He said that since Martinez – whom he cannot even mention because of the trauma he experienced – he began working in xeneize institution end of January 2022 “It changed my job, my life”, It was from that moment that the young woman, who had been press officer for women’s football for 11 years, feel what it’s like to be abused,
“I had to talk to him about work in areas where the whole team was and He began to intimidate me with his gaze, which rested on my breasts, my private parts, my legs. Marco remembered. Not many days had passed when Martinez, looking at him intently, “tucked his tongue over her mouth.” “It disgusts me so much. As a woman you are intimidated because you don’t know what to say, what to do” she added, distressed.
Jorge Martinez, Dispatched Technical Director – Credit: @HECTOR VIVAS
The young woman reported that on one occasion she was sitting with the computer at her feet, waiting for a player on the squad, when the now former DT passed her by and touched one of her knees. And, again, he made the same obscene tongue-in-mouth. “I said what are you doing?’ I didn’t even want him to come over to say hello“, she added. As the days passed, she felt more and more intimidated, intimidated, and abused by Martinez.
Marco recalled a specific incident: “I was talking to a player about something personal. I was scared before [a Martínez], He had a thermos and mate in his hands, and a cell phone in his pants pocket. Suddenly, I felt a hand running down my entire tailbone and down my leg. At that moment you freeze because you cannot understand what is happening. My cell phone comes up in front of my face and he says to me: ‘Take this, you keep all your secrets here.’ I see his face and I start shouting: ‘Get out of here! never touch me again! You are crazy!'”.
“I Had Hope” from The Club
As she was being mistreated, she was getting feedback from other club employees who were suffering from the same thing. Marco decided to “do less” a day and this year on February 1st Boca reported this to the Equality Inclusion Department In charge of third vice president Adriana Bravo. “I expected them to tell me ‘it’s good you dared to do it’, control, care” Marco pointed.
“I gave him a complaint. He was in Ecuador with me. In the first match of the Copa Libertadores, which was rained in torrents, the players were ironing their shirts to dry before the replay and we (along with him) were taking care to see this in the coaches’ locker room Don’t know how girls are,” said the victim to Martinez.
The department initiated the process of opening a gender protocol for her case, while she decided to take a few days off. However, upon his return, Martínez was still at his post. “As if nothing,” Marco insisted and added: “He knew that I was talking to everybody and nobody did anything. He imagined that the power he had was greater than .And how I was living. On seeing from a distance, his harassment, abuses were happening continuously.