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Lamine Yamal<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) boycotted interviews with Spanish broadcaster Movistar after Wednesday\u2019s Champions League quarterfinal following a racist comment made by one of the on-air analysts, who was later fired.<\/p>\n
Germ\u00e1n \u201cMono\u201d Burgos, Diego Simeone\u2019s former assistant manager at Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, was responsible for the remark, which was made about the Bar\u00e7a forward Lamine Yamal, a Spain international with Moroccan and Equatorial Guinean heritage.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf football doesn\u2019t work out for him, he can end up [working] at a traffic light,\u201d Burgos said after watching Lamine Yamal perform tricks with the ball before Bar\u00e7a\u2019s 3-2 first-leg win over PSG at the Parc des Princes.<\/p>\n
The comment was deemed racist and classist in its allusion to those who ask drivers stopped at traffic lights for money, and on Thursday, the network said that Burgos had been fired.<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand many of you want to hear from Bar\u00e7a players and coaches, but UEFA, PSG and Bar\u00e7a have informed us they will not speak to us because they are angry with a comment made in the studio before the game,\u201d Movistar reporter Ricardo Sierra explained on air.<\/p>\n
\u201cTherefore, there won\u2019t be any reaction, so I apologise from here \u2014 as we should do back in the studio.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burgos also offered an apology.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish I had had the ability this kid has,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a comment made without meaning to hurt anyone. We talk about football, nothing else. If he felt offended, I am sorry and I apologise publicly.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not the intention. Sometimes humour gets you into trouble. In these times you have to adapt to everything and that\u2019s what we are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
He later added on Instagram: \u201cThis statement is to reiterate my apology for my comment. It was not my intention to harm Lamine Yamal, Barcelona, the players, UEFA, nor the Movistar Plus+ platform where I work. In making the remark, I chose to make a joke about quality and flattering virtues, in no case was it about any ethnicity or social class.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter working in football for so many years, I am excited to see the young players from the youth academy. I admire above all the amount of new talent that Bar\u00e7a are bringing through because I believe that quality always triumphs in the end. I am a pro-academy coach and in all the teams I have been in I have focused on bringing young players in to train with the first team. I apologise to anyone who was offended by my comment. My intention was not to denigrate Lamine Yamal, on the contrary.<\/p>\n
\u201cFootball unites everything and everyone. That is why it is the best sport, because it does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, religion, disability, age or sexual orientation. This is what I believe in!\u201d<\/p>\n
Movistar apologised in a statement and said they \u201ccondemn any type of discrimination and will not allow these type of comments from any of the employees or collaborators linked to the platform,\u201d adding they \u201cwill take the appropriate measures to ensure that these events do not happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n
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