Greek Soccer Player Banned for Life - Was he Thinking?

[BringBackThatOleTimeBoys]

He made a **** salute after a score > http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/m...celebrates-goal-****-salute-article-1.1291155

We all make mistakes, but I must be missing this players gene defect that apparently gives him the urge to make the most vulgar gesture possible, yet tell everyone "I didn't know it was that bad!"

He seems to think we live in a world we are supposed to applaud if he does something like a middle finger.

If they ever left him play again, I hope it's because be confessed he thought he could get away with it, then learned no you can't.

 

[Muhast]

He made a **** salute after a score > http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/m...celebrates-goal-****-salute-article-1.1291155

We all make mistakes, but I must be missing this players gene defect that apparently gives him the urge to make the most vulgar gesture possible, yet tell everyone "I didn't know it was that bad!"

He seems to think we live in a world we are supposed to applaud if he does something like a middle finger.

If they ever left him play again, I hope it's because be confessed he thought he could get away with it, then learned no you can't.

"I didnt know it was offensive" " I was pointing to a teammate in the crowd". Wow. Seriously?

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

He prob knew a lil about what that salute symbolizes but not the full extent.

So he made a gesture - big deal. Let him learn he cant do things that arent PC and go on with life.

Will there be an end to forcing everyone to conform to a PC world?

 

[joseephuss]

He prob knew a lil about what that salute symbolizes but not the full extent.

So he made a gesture - big deal. Let him learn he cant do things that arent PC and go on with life.

Will there be an end to forcing everyone to conform to a PC world?

He is learning that lesson. No one is forcing him to conform. He can continue to make that gesture. He just won't be allowed to play for his national team. He isn't losing his job on his club team or getting kicked out of his home country.

 

[burmafrd]

stupid people do stupid things. Nothing will change that.

Greece was occupied by Germany for most of WW2. So there is no excuse for him not knowing how wrong that was.

So he pays a price for his stupidity. Just as he should.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

stupid people do stupid things. Nothing will change that.

Greece was occupied by Germany for most of WW2. So there is no excuse for him not knowing how wrong that was.

So he pays a price for his stupidity. Just as he should.

Many Greeks were German sympathizers. Not saying that his was but it could be a possible explanation as to why he did that. Who knows?

Doesn't matter. Fact is that it's still not received well in Europe. Amazing to me that the behavior is accepted so much more here in the States then in Europe. If that had happened here, he would have been ridiculed in the tabloids but he would not have been banned from the sport.

 

[BringBackThatOleTimeBoys]

^ Europe's worst N-word is with the ***** - not the same as America's because our experiences.

 

[burmafrd]

Many Greeks were German sympathizers. Not saying that his was but it could be a possible explanation as to why he did that. Who knows?

Doesn't matter. Fact is that it's still not received well in Europe. Amazing to me that the behavior is accepted so much more here in the States then in Europe. If that had happened here, he would have been ridiculed in the tabloids but he would not have been banned from the sport.

yes he should be. Some things there should be no second chance on and that should be made clear.

 

[joseephuss]

Many Greeks were German sympathizers. Not saying that his was but it could be a possible explanation as to why he did that. Who knows?

Doesn't matter. Fact is that it's still not received well in Europe. Amazing to me that the behavior is accepted so much more here in the States then in Europe. If that had happened here, he would have been ridiculed in the tabloids but he would not have been banned from the sport.

He wasn't banned from the sport. He was banned from playing with the national team.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

He wasn't banned from the sport. He was banned from playing with the national team.

My bad. I misunderstood.

That is very different indeed. I'd wager to say that in the U.S., he might very well have been dismissed from the National Team for doing that.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

yes he should be. Some things there should be no second chance on and that should be made clear.

come on bumafrd, you can't be going soft now and being politically correct can you?

 

[DallasCowpoke]

yes he should be. Some things there should be no second chance on and that should be made clear.

So by that philosophy, they should kick this guy out of the Royal Family Club, huh?

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[WPBCowboysFan]

So by that philosophy, they should kick this guy out of the Royal Family Club, huh?

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Maybe he is liberal so all is ignored and forgiven. The soccer player must not be a liberal.

 

[DFWJC]

He wasn't banned from the sport. He was banned from playing with the national team.

That makes more sense to me due the clear implications.

 

[burmafrd]

come on bumafrd, you can't be going soft now and being politically correct can you?

its called having standards. Some people might go look for some.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

its called having standards. Some people might go look for some.

Actually marine, what you are saying is political correctness is fine if you agree with the correctness, but not if you do not.

I am sure you have no problem with CBS being forced to apologize over The Amazing Race but if CBS was forced to apologize for having had an anti-communism road block on the show, you would be up in arms about attacking free speech and being politically correct.

You are a walking contradiction marine.