Mexican soccer team Atlas FC is SLAMMED online after bizarrely using a quote from Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels to defend controversial MLS refereeing call
- Atlas sent the tweet at 9:37am Eastern time and has yet to delete it
- The post generated negative reactions from Mexican soccer fans
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In one of the most bizarre and reprehensible defenses of a referee’s decision, Mexican soccer team Atlas FC posted a tweet which quoted Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
During the team’s Leagues Cup match against New York City FC, a video assistant referee review deemed NYCFC’s late tying goal offsides and took it off the board in a game Atlas won 1-0.
A Mexican YouTuber by the name of Gabo Montiel – known alternatively as Werevertumorro – criticized the overturned decision while referencing a perceived history of questionable calls given in Atlas’s favor in Liga MX play.
‘Today they helped Atlas and they will say: The refereeing wasn’t against the mx league?’ I swear to you that the opinion of a lot of people can influence… do you remember when in ligamx everything went in Atlas’s favor until people began to point it out and out of nowhere the favors disappeared? Well, something like that happened today,’ Montiel’s tweet read.
Despite not tagging the club in his statement, Atlas saw it and decided to respond – tagging Werevertumorro – and employed a Goebbels quote in their defense.
Atlas FC decided to defend a controversial call by quoting Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels
The tweet paraphrases the Goebbels quote ‘Lie, lie lie. If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.’
‘This shot is crystal clear,’ the tweet reads in Spanish. ‘The offside happens on the first play. It is unfortunate how “influencers” and media “analysts” manipulate and generate ideas of ‘supposed aid’.
‘But remembering what Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Information (Hitler’s right-hand man) said applies perfectly: “Lie, Lie Lie [and it will] remain. The bigger a lie, the more people will believe it.” @werevertumorro.’
Shocked, Montiel tweeted out again. ‘Have you ever had something like this? Do you remember any team making a tweet of this type? Answering an ‘influencer’ (so they say)… and citing a Nazi? I have never considered myself an influencer but fancy influencing an institution that’s doing so much juggling.’
The tweet remained up at the time of publishing and generated reactions of confusion and shock.
One soccer journalist wrote, ‘Am shocked this is still up after two hours and NO ONE at @AtlasFC doesn’t see the issue with a Tweet where not only is Goebbels mentioned but (Hitler’s right hand) is there too… INSANE…’
The Tennessean’s Drake Hills wrote, ‘Quoting the Nazi Minister of Information for an offsides call. This is Leagues Cup (?)’
‘I’m very, very, very, very (very) surprised that Atlas still haven’t deleted this tweet,’ ESPN’s Mexico soccer writer Cesar Hernandez said.
Newsday’s Ryan Gerbosi wrote, ‘Atlas admin referencing Goebbels and the Nazil while complaining about reaction to an offside call *which went its way* was not on my #LeaguesCup bingo card.’
Social media was stunned at the outrageous tweet and that it hadn’t been deleted
The Athletic’s Jeff Rueter said, ‘Can’t believe we needed to clarify this, but there isn’t a single event on a soccer pitch which will ever warrant a comparison to the Holocaust.’
Mexican fans were also shocked by the tweet and its reaction, with one saying, ‘In which semester of Communication (school) [are you taught] to associate your brand with the Third Reich?’
Another said, ‘And there was no way to explain it without citing Nazis on Monday before noon?’
Atlas plays in the city of Guadalajara – which boasts the second largest Jewish population in the country behind the capital of Mexico City.
Post source: Daily mail