The Argentine
Football Association (AFA) has been panned for including a chapter about
"how to stand a chance with a Russian girl" in a manual it handed to
journalists travelling to the World Cup in Russia.
It
recommended that journalists "look clean, smell nice and dress well"
in order to impress Russian "girls".
It also urged
them to treat women as "someone of worth".
The advice
caused an outcry on social media and the AFA has since removed it.
The
association apologised and said that an internal investigation had found that
part of the material was "printed by mistake".
The
controversy comes just months after the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, saw
the biggest women's march in Latin America with protesters decrying rampant
sexism and demanding an end to violence against women.
'Don't ask
stupid questions about sex'
Argentine
journalist Nacho Catullo said he was among the dozens of reporters and football
officials attending a free course on Russian language and culture held by the
AFA for those travelling to the World Cup in Russia.
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