Colombia head coach Carlos Queiroz has landed in hot water after being heard to seemingly trivializing gender-based violence after a press conference on Monday.

The 67-year-old Portuguese had been asked about the inclusion of Boca Juniors' Sebastian Villa in Los Cafeteros' preliminary squad to face Uruguay and Ecuador in World Cup qualifiers.

Villa was involved in a scandal in April after the forward's girlfriend reported him to Argentinian authorities for gender-based violence during the period of quarantine for the new coronavirus.

After the press conference had ended, Queiroz, still mic'd up, was heard reacting to a tweet from a Colombian journalist criticizing the decision to call up the 24-year-old forward.

"If all men that received a punch from a woman went to the press to talk about it, the world would be fucked," said the coach.

Later, Queiroz posted a tweet of his own, defending the player and not apologizing for his outburst: "Any judgement from media do not replace the primary function of justice."