There was a lot of Dutch tv viewers, who got something wrong in the neck, since during the transmission of the Ajax-Heracles, Saturday heard the now rarely-used German phrase ‘Sieg Heil’ from the lips of a country’s largest fodboldhelte.

Him, with his famous volley gave the Netherlands its only slutrundesejr in 1988 and, at the same finals, also earned the hævntørstende nation its first tournament win over just the bitterly hated s command, west Germany. And so even on their own grass.

But they heard not wrong, for it was exactly what Marco van remain the last team said from the studio, while he thought the microphone was off. The note created is not surprising quite a stir. Van remain the last team ended up quickly in the Twitter-the guillotine, where people stood in line to express their outrage, and now, the employer has the Fox Sports decided to suspend him without pay for a week.

His comment was inappropriate. Not only because it was in the day, but in general, says a spokesperson from Fox Sports.

the Van remain the last team would really just make fun with the studio reporter Hans Kraay, who had just been tried on a somewhat broken German in an interview with Heracles’ German coach Frank Wormuth.

Sieg Heil. Not so beautiful, pancake, sounded the teasing remark from the former Dutch national coach, who perhaps had not counted on, that the whole of his country of origin had to hear it with.

– I would not shock people. I just wanted to make fun of His’ German. It was a poorly timed joke, explained van remain the last team to later to the Dutch Algemeen Dagblad newspaper.

And the timing could not have been worse. Afstandstagen to racism was the major theme in Dutch football just the round. In a joint protest, it had been decided that none of the players in the country’s two best rows would play the first minute in each of the weekend’s matches.

the Background was the indignation of racist behaviour from fans during a match in the country’s second best number. You can read more about here:

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Seen in this light, appeared the legend’s joke perhaps extra unfortunate, because it is difficult to find an expression that is deeper rooted in racism than just that, he chose.

Sieg heil, which can be translated to ‘hail victory!’ or ‘salvation through the victory’ was one of several variants of an obligatory greeting, which among other things, all letters should be completed with in Hitlertyskland.

in Addition to perhaps the most used ‘Heil Hitler!’ was ‘Sieg Heil’ is also widely used. Here one could greet and at the same time, also just get stated, that you believed unreservedly in Germany and the krigslykke and the ultimate victory for Hitler’s political project.

A project that also ended up costing a quarter of a million Dutch people life, when Germany in may 1940 invaded the Netherlands, Belgium and France. During the invasion, the Dutch city of Rotterdam was bombed to the ground with many deaths to follow, and the rest of the nation came under the five years of occupation.

Marco van remain the last team was widely regarded as the best player of his generation and was at home hot called the ‘swan of Utrecht’ for his elegant style of play. In addition to the nickname gave him also all the three Ballon d’or in the course of acting as a striker for Ajax, AC Milan and the Dutch national team.

For the latter was his big moment, the previously mentioned european championship in west Germany in 1988, where he in addition to be the match winner against both west Germany in the semi-final and the soviet union in the final, also ended as the tournament top scorer.

part of danes will probably also remember him warmly for that burn on Peter Schmeichel in the shoot-out of the seminfinalen between Denmark and the Netherlands in 1992. Van Bastens burns was the only one and was thus crucial for Denmark’s advancement towards gold medal.

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