{"id":137635,"date":"2019-11-24T04:45:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T01:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/sportsnews\/article-7718949\/Marco-van-Basten-embroiled-race-storm-Dutch-legend-says-Sieg-Heil-live-air.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490"},"modified":"2019-11-24T04:45:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T01:45:21","slug":"marco-van-basten-embroiled-in-race-storm-after-dutch-legend-says-sieg-heil-live-on-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/marco-van-basten-embroiled-in-race-storm-after-dutch-legend-says-sieg-heil-live-on-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco van Basten embroiled in race storm after Dutch legend says ‘Sieg Heil’ live on air"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Dutch football great Marco van Basten apologised on Saturday after he was heard using a Nazi greeting to ridicule a Dutch television journalist’s German during an interview.<\/p>\n

Van Basten, 55, who is regarded as one of the game’s best ever strikers, made the comment on Fox Sports pay-to-view channel after an interview ahead of the Eredivisie clash between Ajax and Heracles.<\/p>\n

His words could be heard in the studio moments after TV presenter Hans Kraay’s interview in German with Heracles’ German manager Frank Wormuth.<\/p>\n

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Dutch legend Marco van Basten said ‘Sieg Heil’ on air as a pundit on Dutch television<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

‘Not too pretty, sieg heil, pfannkuchen (pancake),’ Van Basten said, using the Nazi German greeting during World War II.<\/p>\n

His words unleased a Twitter storm and during half-time in the match the former Ajax and AC Milan forward made his excuses for what he termed an ‘ill-placed joke’.<\/p>\n

‘It was not my intention at all to shock people. I only wanted to ‘explain’ Hans’ German,’ a contrite Van Basten said.<\/p>\n

But Van Basten’s misplaced comment left many fuming, not only because of what he said but also about its timing.<\/p>\n

Football clubs in the Netherlands are taking active measures to fight racism following an incident last weekend when racist chants caused a second division match to be halted.<\/p>\n

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The former Ajax and AC Milan striker has since apologised for the comment made on Saturday<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The referee briefly suspended Sunday’s game between Excelsior Rotterdam and Den Bosch and Excelsior winger Ahmad Mendes Moreira walked off the pitch.Van basten<\/p>\n

Moreira said he heard monkey noises and songs about ‘Black Pete’, a traditional Dutch Christmas-time character that appears in blackface and attracts accusations of racist stereotyping, Dutch media reported.<\/p>\n

Fox Sports also apologised for Van Basten’s comments, the daily Algemeen Dagblad reported.<\/p>\n

‘His comments were inappropriate. Not only for today, but for every day,’ a spokesman told the paper.<\/p>\n

Ajax beat Heracles 4-1 after goals among others by Quincy Promes and Zakaria Labyad.<\/p>\n

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