But there is a difference between writing a fic in which a non-famous person is a tangential character and writing a fic about that person, especially if that fic involves porn. For example, I don't have any problem with the minor role that Emili Ricart plays in your soulbonding AU because he is a minor role; it's written respectfully; and he doesn't do anything in the fic that the real person might be embarrassed about. If someone were to write an equivalent fic that included the female Chelsea doctor, I'd have as little problem with it. But if someone were to write a, say, Emili/Pep fic or an Eva/Mata fic, then yes, I would have a great deal of problem with it, because what the fuck, they're not the kind of people you write porn about on the internet. They didn't sign up for that. And that, unfortunately, does extend to pretty much all women in football (with the exception of lady 'ballers, who should get more love than they do, but that is also a problem with society at large). Football is by default a slash fandom because there simply aren't that many women "characters".

That is NOT to say that there isn't a lot of misogyny in footie fandom, and that I don't think that it should be addressed. (Although that's hardly unique to footie fandom -- I've been in Marvel fandom since forever, and while I am very, very glad that the Marvel universe movies have generally been awesome and have brought a lot of new talent to the fandom, seeing the same old let's-get-this-canon-female-character-out-of-the-way-so-we-can-have-our-happy-slash-pairing replayed over and over again on AO3 -- finding a way to get Pepper Potts out of the way to have Tony Stark/Steve Rogers slash is really big right now -- gets really annoying really quickly.) I do think the characterization of women in the football slash fandom should be worked on, because it is generally very awful. But I also think the characterization of women in football fandom as a whole should be worked on, because it is generally very awful. And I don't think places like Kickette help much, because they generally tend to portray women who are interested in sport as only interested because the men are attractive. The fact that most of what Kickette posts about WAGs is about what they're wearing or what they're buying is even worse. I mean, Sara Carbanero is obviously an intelligent women who has worked hard to get where she is in life, and she is defined by a hell of a lot of things outside her relationship with Iker. But when was the last time Kickette posted anything about her that wasn't about her boobs/clothing/boobs in clothing? That's indicative of a larger problem. But again, I don't think that complaining that there isn't enough het in the football RPF fandom is the way to go about fixing the perception of women in sport.

And as for footballslash, it DOES specifically forbid fic that focuses on non-famous family members. That rules out, right there, any het that isn't, say, Pique/Shakira (or arguably Iker/Sara). And frankly, I think they are perfectly correct to make that call, because of the incredibly dicey legal issue that RPF already skates too close to. They do specifically forbid het, but since they also specifically forbid gen, I don't really see how you can argue that their specifically forbidding het is misogynistic. Ruling out het and gen rules out anything that isn't slash, and they are claiming that they are a football slash community, not a football fic community. You can decry this categorization -- personally I think it's bullshit, they long ago morphed into the general fooball fic comm -- but it's the categorization they've chosen, and you can't cherry-pick what part of the classification you don't like to make your point.