El Mono Burgos will not continue in Movistar due to his controversial comment about Lamine Yamal

Germán el Mono Burgos will not continue as a Movistar Plus+ commentator after his unfortunate and controversial comment about Lamine Yamal before the PSG-Barça Champions League match played on Wednesday at the Parc des Princes. Despite publicly apologizing, both live after the match and this Thursday on its social networks, Movistar has decided to break its collaboration with the former Atlético de Madrid and Mallorca goalkeeper, “immediately, in compliance with the internal code of conduct.” » from the television platform, in addition to warning the presenters who shared space with him, among them, Susana Guasch.

Movistar+ already announced early on Thursday that it would adopt the “appropriate measures” after the barrage of complaints and reactions regarding the words of Mono Burgos, which even caused Barcelona and PSG to refuse to attend to the platform’s cameras with streaming rights. the Champions. His “inappropriate comment”, as Movistar describes it, has cost the former Argentine goalkeeper his job, who has been accused of racism and classism on social networks. Before his dismissal became official, Germán Burgos had already informed Movistar that he would not continue to carry out his work as a commentator after the enormous commotion generated by his words.

“Be careful that if he doesn’t do well he ends up at a traffic light,” said Mono Burgos when seeing some images of the Barça striker hitting the ball with his shoulder and both feet, causing laughter on the set. «It was not my intention to harm Lamine Yamal, the people of Barcelona, ​​the players, UEFA, nor the Movistar Plus+ platform where I work. When making my comment I chose to make a joke about quality and praise virtues, in no case was it about any ethnicity or social class,” El Mono wrote on his social networks this Thursday morning.

«I apologize to anyone who was offended by my comment. My intention was not to vilify Lamine Yamal, quite the opposite,” insisted the Argentine coach who was Diego Pablo Simeone’s assistant at Atlético. «It was a comment without trying to hurt anyone. If anyone was offended, I apologize publicly. In these times you have to adapt to everything and that’s what we’re in,” he commented live on Wednesday night after the PSG-Barcelona broadcast. Lamine Yamal’s father also reacted this Thursday to Monkey’s statements. “I only ask for respect for other people’s children,” he wrote.

The network issued an official statement early in the morning apologizing for what happened. «Movistar Plus+ condemns any type of discrimination and will not allow this type of comments from any of the workers or collaborators linked to the platform. After what happened, the platform will adopt the appropriate measures to guarantee that these events do not occur again.”

Movistar+ deleted the video with the Monkey’s comments and has tried to prevent it from being seen on X, citing copyright.

2024-04-11 12:32:28
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