A female Mexican football referee who fell victim to online threats after refereeing a men's match between Monterrey and Cincinnati received the backing of her country's president on Wednesday.

Katia Itzel Garcia has said she was the target of insults and death threats following Monterrey's 2-3 defeat to Cincinnati in a match of the Leagues Cup, a North American competition, last Thursday.

Her decision to award a goal to the US team that some claimed appeared to have been scored from an offside position sparked anger among Mexican supporters.

"In Mexico, in a country where ten women die every day and where 91 women and men die every day, violence should not be normalized. Violence should not exist anywhere," the 32-year-old referee wrote on Instagram.

She said netizens had threatened t

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