‘Mono’ Burgos’ controversial TV comment about a Barcelona player sparked a wave of rejections in Spain

German Adrián Ramón Burgosnicknamed ‘Mono’, he ended up in the eye of the storm this Wednesday for a controversial, for many racist, comment towards the young Barcelona player Yamal laminae.

What happened? After the warm-up, the official broadcast remained with the image of the 16-year-old winger, who was heading towards the locker room. And there the voice of Burgos was heard, one of the commentators of Movistar+, the television network that holds the rights to the Champions League. “Look at the quality; look at the little touches of Lamine Yamal,” Mono said. And he said: “If it doesn’t go well it ends up at the traffic lights. Football is like life.”

Those words from the former River and Argentina national team goalkeeper almost immediately began to be replicated online. Burgos’ classist comment reached the locker room and the Barcelona and PSG players decided don’t talk to the network after the game; Pedri and Raphinha, Barça players, did it with other broadcasters.

After learning of the Spanish players’ determination, Burgos warned that what he said was a mere joke.

The Monkey had already made headlines a week earlier when he reunited Diego Pablo Simeone, who he had criticized for Atlético Madrid’s performance in the defeat against Real Madrid in the semi-final of the Spanish Super Cup played in Saudi Arabia. “I’m very hot, very hot. The game, beyond tactics and strategy, has one team looking for two steps forward and the other two or three steps back. This is the difference that makes Real win” , has explained. The monkey had shot.

Last week, Cholo and Mono met again during the tribute paid to the Uruguayan by the International Union of Atlético de Madrid Fans’ Clubs. Diego Godin in the Civitas Metropolitano auditorium. There, the coach’s former teammates hugged each other not too tightly and allowed themselves to be photographed together.