After the scandal that broke out in Spain due to his statements, German Monkey Burgos He understood that it was time to speak and respond to the countless criticisms he received for a comment he made regarding the footballer. Lamine Yamal in the preview of the match between Barcelona and PSG, for the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals. The former goalkeeper even lost his job in Movistar broadcasts due to this situation. In the run-up to the match, Burgos tried to make a joke when the camera caught the young Barça footballer Lamine Yamal while he was playing games with the ball: “If it doesn’t go well it ends up at a traffic light”said the Monkey jokingly.
“The comment was about the talent and skill of the footballer. People haven’t heard the full audio. As the audio continues, it is an emotional tone. What’s more, I break with humor. Like you, David (Sánchez), who puts humor into the program. The company has to act, nothing happens. I still use Movistar. I’m not going to change. I turned to two producers of the program and told them ‘I’ll get out of the way’”, commented Burgos on Radio Marca.
And I add: “If there is any director of communications or any faculty who wants to see this topic… I just tell them that they call me ‘Monkey’. My nickname breaks everything said and manifested”said Burgos. Furthermore, he said that he tried to communicate with the footballer through the president of Barcelona Joan Laporta: “I sent him a message so that Yamal knew that the only thing he wanted was to send him a compliment.”
Burgos even recounted some of the situations he had to live through when he was a soccer player to try to explain that his comments about Yamal did not have any kind of bad intention: “They threw urine at me and I told them ‘I’ve already tried the golden shower, please insult me. There are people who don’t know me. The goalkeeper can’t leave. He is always receiving these situations. There are people who don’t know me and can take it as I say.”.
Barcelona and PSG go back on their decision
After the end of the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals between Barcelona y Paris Saint Germainin the Parc des Princes, both teams made the decision not to speak with the network that has the rights to the competition due to the comment of Burgos .
However, after a series of statements from the company that broadcasts the matches and the dismissal of the protagonist of the scandal, the media The Digital Confidential confirmed that the two teams have lifted the veto on the platform, so there will be interviews with players and coaches at the end of the matches.
Beyond this determination, the annoyance of the members of the Barcelona squad with Burgos remains latent. So much so that Xavi Hernandez He spoke about the subject at the press conference prior to the Spanish League match against Cádiz and stated that the comment was “disgusting and condemnable”.
Movistar + released a statement after these events, in which it condemned “any type of discrimination” and announced that “will not allow this type of comments from any of the workers or collaborators linked to the platform”.