Mike McLeod /car mechanic, Brendan Foster/ teacher, David Black/clerical , Tony Simmons / lecturer at Luton college of education, Bernie Ford/ tax man for the civil service.
Mike McLeod /car mechanic, Brendan Foster/ teacher, David Black/clerical , Tony Simmons / lecturer at Luton college of education, Bernie Ford/ tax man for the civil service.
Hopefully when it happens to your mom, wife, daughter, sister or niece, you don't pass it off as a cultural misunderstanding.
"Villa’s advances remained consistent and persistent. If Villa passed her in a hallway, Badillo says he would frequently wink, or make what she describes as a “kissy face” or a loud kissing noise. If he approached her to say good morning while she was sitting on a training table, Villa would sometimes place his hand on her inner thigh. If she sat with her legs open at all, Villa would sometimes approach her and attempt to stand in between them. If she didn’t acknowledge him, she’d get a “playful” kick in the foot. “Why do you look at me like you hate me?” Badillo remembers him asking from time to time.
Badillo says she worked through all of this while simultaneously being obligated to have her own, professional physical contact with Villa — treating his calves or his shins, for example, or his hip flexors and his groin. “That is not super fun,” Badillo says, “when somebody is sexually harassing you.”
In screenshots of text messages sent by Badillo to friends and coworkers over the course of 2018 and 2019 and reviewed by The Athletic, Badillo repeatedly expresses concern about the Spaniard’s advances.
By that point, in mid-2018, Badillo had carved out a few places at the training facility where she could seek refuge. She’d duck away between racks of game-ready kits, or stow away in the boot room. She says she’d often time her arrival and departure from work in order to minimize contact with Villa, Christen and Pamplona. She even began to alter her appearance at times so as to not catch Villa’s eye. If she wore her hair down, for example, she knew he would view it as a green light. In a text message to a friend one day, she writes how after a couple of hours with her hair down she put it back up.
“Because anytime I did anything remotely different,” says Badillo, “he would just be like ‘oh, you have a date? Who are you seeing? What are your special plans — your night plans.’”
She remembers once offering Villa instructions on how to take the subway home, only to have the player respond: “Now you know where I live. You should come be my nanny, that way you’ll already be in my house.”
Very unfortunate situation for the young female intern however many people may feel that she should’ve approached the directors of the club to alert them about her feeling of unease in the presence of the Spanish professional footballer (Villa), rather than wait for months after to make her claims felt.
One sympathizes with her but one also feels for the Spanish footballer because as a result his reputation has been very much damaged by this allegation. There was missed communication on both sides.
Those saying it is not impressive should see Nick Symmonds, 1:42 800m, Olympian, retired barely 3 years ago, younger than Villa, and already struggling to break 19 min 5k...
Ghost1 wrote:
Very unfortunate situation for the young female intern however many people may feel that she should’ve approached the directors of the club to alert them about her feeling of unease in the presence of the Spanish professional footballer (Villa), rather than wait for months after to make her claims felt.
One sympathizes with her but one also feels for the Spanish footballer because as a result his reputation has been very much damaged by this allegation. There was missed communication on both sides.
People like you are the reason why victims like this don't speak earlier.
Starno wrote:
Those saying it is not impressive should see Nick Symmonds, 1:42 800m, Olympian, retired barely 3 years ago, younger than Villa, and already struggling to break 19 min 5k...
What if I told you, neither of them are impressive
Starno wrote:
Those saying it is not impressive should see Nick Symmonds, 1:42 800m, Olympian, retired barely 3 years ago, younger than Villa, and already struggling to break 19 min 5k...
roller coaster wrote:
What if I told you, neither of them are impressive
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So true!
Symmonds´ example shows how fast you "fall off" when you stop training regularly.