The president of Palmeiras also stated that the complaint is the “great weapon” to combat these cases. Finally, Leila asked the choir to give women more and more voices. The statements were made in an interview with CazéTV before Paulistão’s semi-final, against Novorizontino, at Allianz Parque.
That’s exactly when I was there [na seleção] that this whole Daniel Alves thing happened, and I didn’t run away from it, I can’t. We have to put our finger on the wound. Us, women, no we can shut up. Sometimes it doesn’t just depend on the courts, so much so that it was the courts that authorized the payment of bail for him to be released. This cannot discourage us from reporting.
We have a very large force, and so does the press. Sometimes justice is not achieved through processes, but rather through popular outcry, with people expressing what happens. These abusers, those who commit violence against women, like to remain anonymous, so the greatest weapon we have is reporting. It’s no use just for Leila Pereira to talk, we all have to have a voice, and we do. Leila Pereira, on CazéTV
What else did Leila say?
Out of the curve in football: “I go completely against what they were used to in football. I don’t shy away from any topic, much less controversy, I work with the truth. I think we will only improve the football product on the day when all of us, managers , let’s be true. That’s what football needs, to have credibility again”.
