Greek Soccer Player Banned For Nazi Salute
Well this is maybe not the best celebration.
1. During a Greek Super League soccer match AEK Athens’ Giorgos Katidis scored a game-winning goal.
2. Look how excited he is!
3. Aw he’s pointing at the fans. That’s great!
4. And… What… Is he… Is that the Nazi salute? Did he just do the Nazi salute?
6. Originally Katidis claimed that he wasn’t saluting but actually pointing at a friend in the stands. He then apologized and said he didn’t know what the gesture meant.
One member of his club attempted to pull down the player’s arm to no avail.
Katidis was banned for life by Greece from representing his country in International contests. He made the following statement about the act.
“I want to clarify that I am not a fascist or neo-Nazi or racist. I have a step-brother from Puerto Rico, and all my family are from the Black Sea and have experienced racism in the worst ways.” He added: “I sincerely apologize to my teammates and everyone involved with the club that I have insulted in not knowing exactly what I had done in my celebration. Nonetheless, the fact that I did not know what I was doing is no excuse.”
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Bookwormgeek 2 months agoHe is most definitely an idiot. But a point of clarification - he was banned for life from playing on the Greek national team. He can continue to play all the soccer he wants at the club level (and continue to be a total double-bag I’m sure). He’ll just never get to represent his country in an international competition.
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K 2 months ago
Van Persie did it first and he hasn’t had half the scrutiny this kid has. He’s an idiot and he really didn’t know what it meant, but the ban is justified.
Too many young kids growing up in Greece watch these morons from xrusi augi and think that their points are validated because they have political power, they need to know what their grandparents died for. -
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Kelsey Eagle 2 months agoActually Greece has a big neo-nazi problem. Wouldn’t matter if he dropped out of school, he would know about it unless he lived in a cave with no news/contact with anyone. Look up one of Greece’s political parties: Golden Dawn. They use a lot of Nazi symbolism.
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MisterMagoo 2 months ago
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/international-news/greek-neo-nazi-party-rises-economy-sinks Apparently the neo-nazi party is a real problem in Greece.
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MrSwearword 2 months agoConsidering how Greece was invaded by the Nazis in WWII, how the fuck does he not know what that meant? The lesson: Idiots exist everywhere.
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Lisa R. 2 months agoSeriously? Banned for life? Maybe fine him or suspend him for a few games. I mean, it’s not like he killed a bunch of dogs or anything. Because if he killed a bunch of dogs, he would definitely be banned for life from playing sports, right?
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