An Argentine journalist wanted to make a “black humor” joke about Pelé’s death and ended up being harshly criticized on social networks. The communicator had to apologize publicly
The sports world was shocked after learning of the death of Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé. One of the reactions by an Argentine journalist during a live program generated outrage on social networks after he made a joke about ‘O Rei’s colon cancer and a match played by the legendary attacker with Santos from Brazil against the Colon of Santa Fe.
Alejandro Fabbri took advantage of the transmission of a live program for the sports channel TyC Sports to make the foolish joke that caused a stir on Twitter and for which he had to apologize shortly after.
“Pelé, look at what. It is a strange thing what I am going to say. To someone capable who doesn’t like it. Pelé came with Santos to play at the Colón stadium in Santa Fe in 1964, when Colón was in Primera B, they played a friendly. Colón, who would only be promoted to First Division the following year for the first time, beat him 2-1 and, from that moment, the Colón stadium was nicknamed the Elephants Cemetery, after that Santos from Brazil ”, he began in the story of the.
However, the controversy would break out in the second part of his speech. “And, curiously, this was sent to me by a friend who was half in black humor, Pelé dies of colon cancer. What a half silly thing, half curious, but striking.
Fabbri received a wave of criticism and harsh comments after his controversial comparison, as many Internet users considered it disrespectful.
“You missed a piece of information. Pelé dated Xuxa for a while. Xuxa was a model: this is clearly related to Daniel Alberto…PASSARELLA. Investigative journalism,” one user sarcastically stated.
“Fabbri always represented IMPUNITY from the word (what we call journalism). For many years the guy can (he knows he can) get in front of a microphone and say literally anything: any barbarity that is dictated to him or occurs to him. Bit serious; not very honest ”, was another of the criticisms against the communicator.
public apologies
After noticing all the commotion caused by his intervention on television, the Argentine journalist had to use his Twitter account to apologize and ensure that it was only a “black humor” joke.
“Many soccer fans were offended and I apologize. It wasn’t my idea to make fun of Pelé or anything like that. I said it was a matter of black humor and that was it. Sorry. It won’t happen again,” he wrote.
Last Thursday, December 29, due to multiple organ failure derived from colon cancer that he had suffered since last year and after a month in hospital, Pele died.