MEXICO CITY (appro).- Nilla Fischer, a former Swedish soccer player, stated in her recently published biography that during the 2011 Women’s World Cup in Germany, FIFA forced the players to undergo a genital examination to prove that they were women. .
In his biography, Jag sa inte ens hälften (I didn’t say the half), Fischer explained that the highest international soccer body ordered this “examination” of the players after rumors spread that in the squad of the The Equatorial Guinean team had men.
“When I heard about the surprising demand, I fumed. In the middle of a World Cup, the big shots of FIFA want us to show our genitals. They told us not to shave ‘down there’ for the next few days and to show it to the doctor afterwards. Nobody understands it, but we do what they ask us and we wonder what is happening, ”wrote the Swedish woman.
The former soccer player explained that a physical therapist performed the exam while the doctor turned his back. Fischer called the experience “unpleasant” and “humiliating.” “The way it was done was excessive. I think that was why none of the players have told about it until now. We realized that it would only be talked about. As I write in the book, it was not pleasant at all,” she declared.
According to FIFA, on May 30, 2011, it was approved in the Sexual Identity Verification Regulations that “in no FIFA competition, mandatory or routine verification tests will be carried out. It is up to each member association to ensure, before the appointment of its national team, the correct sexual identification of all its players.
