SPORTS SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2016

Matches on TV (Local Timings)

ENGLISH Norwich City v Man United 14:45 beIN SPORTS 2 HD Aston Villa v Newcastle 17:00 beIN SPORTS 11 HD EN Sunderland v Chelsea FC 17:00 beIN SPORTS 2 HD West Ham United v Swansea 17:00 beIN SPORTS 1 HD Crystal Palace v Stoke City 17:00 beIN SPORTS 9 HD Bournemouth v West Bromwich 17:00 beIN SPORTS 7 HD Leicester City v Everton FC 19:30 beIN SPORTS 2 HD

GERMAN BUNDESLIGA Hertha Berlin v Darmstadt 16:30 beIN SPORTS Eintracht v Borussia Dortmund 16:30 beIN SPORTS 3 HD Hamburger v VfL Wolfsburg 16:30 beIN SPORTS 6 HD FC Koln v SV Werder Bremen 16:30 beIN SPORTS Schalke 04 v FC Augsburg 16:30 LIMA: Peruvian FIFA female referee Melany Bermejo (L) arbitrates footballers a football match at a stadium. — AFP beIN SPORTS 10 HD VfB Stuttgart v FSV Mainz 16:30 beIN SPORTS Get in the kitchen!: Life as Monchengladbach v Bayer 04 16:30 beIN SPORTS 4 HD a female football referee Hannover 96 v Hoffenheim 16:30 beIN SPORTS LIMA: A rough tackle, the whistle fessional football games — 324 main referee Salome di Iorio says players Ingolstadt 04 v Bayern Munich 16:30 blows and a foul is given. “Get back in referees and 396 assistants. But of 209 have asked her to take down their beIN SPORTS 5 HD the kitchen!” the player yells at the ref- national federations, 60 have no phone numbers when she gets out eree. It’s one of the kinder things male female referees registered, according her notebook. Others just spit at her. players have said to Melany Bermejo, to FIFA’s data. ITALIAN CALCIO LEAGUE one of the rare women referees in the “For the time being, the women Strict women referees Inter Milano v Empoli 19:00 macho world of Latin American foot- work mainly in women’s and youth The pressure of verbal abuse turns beIN SPORTS 4 HD ball. Shoved, spat at, insulted and flirt- football or in games with reserve the job into a psychological as well as Bologna FC v AC Milan 21:45 ed with on the field, she and a handful teams, or men’s games of indoor foot- a physical challenge. “Some players of other women are nevertheless ball,” said Carlos Coradina, director of do not want female referees and are beIN SPORTS 4 HD close to the top of their profession in a referees’ training college in not adapting to the idea,” Peruvian men’s football games. “You have to Argentina. The president of the referee Johanna Vega says. “I am very FRENCH LEAGUE make double the effort a man makes,” Peruvian Referees’ Commission, Julio serious when I come onto the field,” Lyonnais v AS Monaco 22:00 says Lixy Enriquez, 42, an assistant ref- Arevalo, denied the system was sexist. she adds. “You have to be a psycholo- eree in Mexico. Anyone who passes the tests set gist” to put up with the insults. beIN SPORTS 9 HD Bermejo, a 37-year-old PE teacher, for male referees by FIFA and South Bernardo Corujo, president of the Montpellier v Stade Rennes 22:00 has served as referee at second-divi- American football governing body Venezuelan Referees’ Commission, beIN SPORTS sion masculine games in her native CONMEBOL can do the job, he said. reckons female referees are “stricter” Marseille v 22:00 Peru. Like most of her female counter- Those who want to referee men’s than their male counterparts. But they parts around the world, she has yet to matches must be fit enough to keep have fought a strict, sometimes overt- beIN SPORTS 5 HD break into the top league, where so up with top male athletes charging up ly discriminatory, system. Nantes v Caen 22:00 far women serve only as lineswomen and down the field. “Male football is In Argentina, Florencia Romano beIN SPORTS or fourth officials. There are excep- very fast and the players are very went on hunger strike in 1996 to Bastia Angers 22:00 tions. In Uruguay, Claudia Umpierrez, skilled,” says Loreto Toloza, 32, a demand the right to be registered as a beIN SPORTS 33, made her top-flight debut in female assistant referee in Chile. professional referee. The head of the February as a referee in men’s games. But when a woman does make the Argentine Football Association at the OGC Nice v Saint Etienne 22:00 In Venezuela, Emikar Caldera and grade, an different challenge begins. time, Julio Grondona, said it was not beIN SPORTS 8 HD Yersinia Correa have been refereeing The worst insults from the stands “sensible” for a woman to do the job. FC v ES Troyes AC 22:00 such games for three years. Outside come from women fans, Lixy Enriquez Romano ended up being accepted beIN SPORTS Latin America, Gladys Lengwe of says. The male fans yell: “I want to take anyway. For women who make the Zambia is among the very few women home the assistant.” grade, the psychological pressure can OSC v Guingamp 22:00 to have reached the top level as a ref- The reception on the field is not even turn to violence.”One player beIN SPORTS 3 HD eree. In Ukraine, Kateryna Monzul is always better. When Virginia Tovar jumped on me when I gave a foul and Girondins v Lorient 22:00 expected to do the same. became the first woman to referee a he didn’t like it,” says Tatiana Guzman, beIN SPORTS top-league men’s match in Mexico in a 28-year-old referee in Nicaragua. ‘Go wash the dishes’ 2004, the star player Cuauhtemoc “There is always the fear that some- Ajaccio v Saint-Germain 22:00 World football body FIFA has 720 Blanco reportedly yelled at her: “Go one foolish will do that. You have to beIN SPORTS 6 HD women registered as referees for pro- and wash the dishes.” In Argentina, be ready to run.” — AFP