Brazil’s Superior Sports Court (STJD) sanctioned the attacker on Friday Eduardo Pereira Rodrigues ‘Dudu’ with six suspension parties and a fine equivalent to about $ 16,200 (14,000 euros) for their offenses considered misogynistic to the president of Palmeiras, Leila Pereira.
The Judgment of the Maximum Sports Court of Brazil prevents Dudu, Atlético Mineiro player, Dispute next Sunday’s game precisely against Palmeiras, a club in which he was idol and with which he conquered two titles of the Copa Libertadores, one of the South American Recopa, two of the Brazilian championship and one of the Do Brazil Cup.
The former Dinamo of kyiv abandoned Palmeiras at the beginning of this year for his divergences with the president of the Paulista club.
Leila Pereira, president of Palmeiras
In unanimous decision of its five members, the fifth disciplinary commission considered “very serious” The soccer player’s behavior and concluded that he violated the article of the Sports Justice Code that deals with discriminatory, humiliating or outraged acts.
The process was due to publications at the beginning of this year in which Dudu insulted the president of Palmeiras after she recriminated her for negotiating her transfer to Cruzeiro, with which she signed before going to the Mineiro, without knowledge of the club’s leaders.
The controversy message
“My story (In El Palmeiras) She was giant and sincere, different from that of Mrs. Leila Pereira. Forget me. VTNC (Acronym in Portuguese for the offensive expression ‘to be taken by the ass’)“, Dudu said in a message on his social networks.
After the insult, Pereira, who also filed a complaint with civil justice, said publicly that if he were a man, he would not have received a response from that caliber and that he had no doubt that Dudu had done it because he felt in the right to insult a woman.
Dudu, absent in the room
During the four -hour hearing of the trial this Friday, in which the president of the Palmeiras and representatives of the Brazilian Women’s Union testified for the accusation, Dudu abstained to go and preferred to do so by teleconference, so she was qualified as “coward” by the leader.
A milestone and a victory for women
In a statement he disclosed after the court’s decision, Pereira described the body’s decision as a milestone and a victory for women. “We are cowardly attacked and disqualified every day,” said.
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“This penalty has a pedagogical character because it transmits a clear message for the world of football and the whole society: violence against women is unacceptable and has to be self -conscious with rigorous sanctions. We are not going to shut up,” Pereira added.
