The Argentine FA was 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," according to the BBC. The manual 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 AFA apologized and said that an internal investigation found that part of the material was "printed by mistake." Argentine journalist Nacho Catullo said that 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." He tweeted photos of the chapter, "which started being shared and mocked on the internet as the course was still going on." According to Catullo, officials "then interrupted the course," collecting the manuals, "only to return them with the controversial pages torn out" (BBC, 5/16).
