Barcelona emerged winner of the first round of the Champions League quarter-final tie against Paris Saint-Germain. Two goals from Raphinha and one from Christensen helped Xavi Hernández’s team take advantage of the second leg that will be played in Montjuïc next Tuesday.
However, outside the green of the Parc des Princes, an event occurred that partially overshadowed the culé victory in Paris. Germán Burgos, coach and commentator on Movistar+, made an unfortunate comment about Lamine Yamal in the run-up to the match: “Be careful that if he doesn’t do well (in football) he doesn’t end up at a traffic light.” A statement that went viral to such an extent that PSG and Barça decided not to attend to the Movistar microphones at the end of the match and for which the chain itself apologized and announced that it would take “the appropriate measures to ensure that these events do not occur again.”
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El Mono Burgos, later, also retracted and apologized, explaining the true nature of his intervention: “When making my comment, I chose to make a joke about quality and flatter virtues, in no case was it about any ethnicity or social class.” . Apologies that seemed insufficient for Mounir Nasroui, Lamine Yamal’s father. Under the pseudonym @hustle_hard_304 on the social network Instagram, the father of the Barça attacker shared a story addressing the controversy: “Good morning to the world. I only ask respect for other people’s children. Thank you”.
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