The reactions and memories about the death of the great Edson Arantes Do Nascimento, Pele, throughout the world of football. But what the journalist Alejandro Fabbri said has caused a stir in Argentina and internationally.
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Although it is not the most internationally recognized, andhe veteran communicator is one of the most recognized when it comes to football Argentinian and the history of the different categories of gaucho football. That is why they consulted the journalist from TyC Sports to talk about the legend that the Brazilian wrote in world football.
And Fabbri, who is also known for some controversies throughout his career, believed that it was time to tell the supposed comment that a friend sent him. Without measuring what his words could cause, he released a piece of information and then made a ‘joke‘, which little liked and gave many points and criticism.
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The painful comment of Alejandro Fabbri, after the Pele’s death:
While recalling one of Pelé’s visits to Argentine soil, when he played for the Santos of Brazil, Fabbri wanted to explain that the stadium of Colón de Santa Fe took its nickname from the victory over the team of Skin. This is how his speech began:
“Look at what a strange thing, what I am going to say, maybe someone will not like it.
Pelé came with Santos to play at the Colón de Santa Fe stadium in 1964, when Colón was in the old first B.
They played a friendly, Colón, who would be promoted the following year, for the first time, beat them 2-1 and from that moment the Colón field was nicknamed ‘The Elephants Cemetery’, after that Santos from Brazil”
But after, wanted to finish off the data with a comment out of all context about the disease suffered by ‘O Rei’ in the last years of his life.
Apart from the situation, painful for others, the comments were very strong against Alejandro Fabbrileading him to apologize through his Twitter account:
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“Many soccer fans were offended and I apologize. It wasn’t my idea to make fun of Pelé or anything like that. Sorry. It won’t happen again”
But the people did not forgive him and many asked him to retire from his work, because of his age and they even charged him for many things from the past, which were unrelated to his comment about Pelé.
