Women's soccer stars announce pregnancy, team makes statement on alleged 'abuse' to them days later

Pro women's shot players Sam Kerr and Kristie Mewis, who are successful a same-sex relationship, announced that Mewis is large with their archetypal kid successful an Instagram station connected Sunday. 

Just 1 time later, the squad who Kerr plays for, Chelsea FC, released a connection addressing alleged "abuse" that the players received aft the announcement. 

"There is nary spot successful nine for immoderate signifier of favoritism and we volition not judge immoderate maltreatment directed towards our players, unit oregon supporters," the connection read, per Reuters. "We are highly arrogant to beryllium a diverse, inclusive nine that celebrates and welcomes radical from each cultures, communities and identities."

Chelsea women’s squad manager Sonia Bompastor addressed the allegations during a quality league connected Tuesday. 

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Sam Kerr and Kristie Mewis look connected during the Premier League lucifer betwixt Chelsea FC and Manchester City FC astatine Stamford Bridge connected August 18, 2024 successful London, England.  (Marc Atkins/Getty Images)

"This is conscionable unacceptable to person these benignant of comments, particularly successful our satellite successful 2024," Bompastor said astatine a quality league up of Chelsea’s crippled against Celtic successful the Women’s Champions League. "That’s conscionable brainsick for maine to recognize however radical tin respond similar this."

During a squad quality league connected Tuesday, England women's shot manager Sarina Wiegman was besides asked astir the alleged attacks by a reporter. 

"It is very, precise disappointing," Wiegman said of the alleged abuse.

The archetypal station announcing the gestation is present blocking disconnected immoderate caller comments. However, erstwhile comments connected the station remained. 

Multiple comments that are inactive nether the station inquired astir who the begetter of the babe is. Many of the responses to those comments person brought up the anticipation of IVF, portion others person lambasted the users who posed the question for adjacent asking.

International shot institutions person made predominant efforts to combat homophobia among the sport's fans successful caller years. 

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In May, France's sports curate called for shot nine Monaco to beryllium sanctioned aft 1 of its players, Mohamed Camara, covered an LGBTQ support connection connected his jersey during the team's last league game.

French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra called Mohamad Camara's actions "unacceptable" and for "firm sanctions" against some the subordinate and the club.

Camara, who is Muslim, covered the badge with achromatic portion and refused to enactment successful a pregame photograph successful beforehand of a banner carrying the aforesaid message.

"Homophobia is not an opinion, it’s a crime," Aurore Bergé, the French curate of equality, wrote connected X. "And homophobia kills. There indispensable beryllium strict punishment for Mohamed Camara."

Camara missed the archetypal 4 games of this year's Ligue de Football Professionnel season.

In October, the German nonrecreational soccer club VfL Wolfsburg disciplined subordinate Kevin Behrens aft helium refused to autograph a cheery pridefulness garment and made comments considered homophobic toward a instrumentality who requested it. 

The subordinate allegedly refused to motion a Wolfsburg garment that featured a rainbow logo for the LGBTQ pride flag. Behrens besides allegedly said, "I won’t motion that cheery [crap]," according to aggregate reports.

Behrens has since apologized for the incident. 

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Kristie Mewis of United States embraces Sam Kerr of Australia aft the Olympic shot bronze medal lucifer betwixt United States and Australia astatine Kashima Stadium connected August 05, 2021 successful Kashima, Ibaraki, Japan.  (Zhizhao Wu/Getty Images)

In 2021, each Mexico nationalist squad fans were banned from attending the team's World Cup qualifiers aft fans utilized a Spanish chant that included a connection that is recognized arsenic a cheery slur. The squad was forced to play its location qualifiers successful an bare stadium and had to wage a good of $73,000. 

Mexican Football Federation President Yon De Luisa acknowledged the chant was a long-standing contented for the squad erstwhile she addressed the instrumentality prohibition successful a property league that summer. 

"For galore years, that was the statement for america astatine the Mexican federation," De Luisa said. "That is nary longer a debate. If it is discriminatory, we should debar it."

FIFA announced its ain disciplinary code to combat violative chants by spectators successful July 2019. According to the code, officials are expected to springiness 1 informing to spectators if violative chants are used, but if they continue, officials indispensable wantonness the match, and players are sent to the locker rooms. 

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