It happened at the end of the match between Santa Fe and Atlético Nacional in El Campín de Bogotá, a match that was interrupted for a long time due to excesses between the fans of both teams.
Although the green defeated the local at the end of 90 minutes, almost nobody cared, but the Win Sports channel continued the broadcast almost as if nothing, and at the end came the routine moment of the interviews.
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“How nice the spectacle with an audience, right?”, the reporter asked Andrés ‘Rifle’ Andrade, who did not seem surprised and said that Although it is a “sensation we have not felt for a long time”, he also said that the violence was “sad”, and made a call to all the fans in the country:
“This is football, joy, fun, it is not to come to fight or come to kill us,” he begged, saying that he understands that there are behaviors that are due to a passion for a jersey, “but this is football. We cannot fight among the people, much less do this show ”.
This was the question and the response of the footballer:
Really? Did I have to ask that question?
There are things that I do not understand.
Opinions? ???? pic.twitter.com/MuMsCy7Kb7
– Giovanni Echeverry N (@giovanicolella) August 4, 2021
The criticisms in networks were immediate, even in English:
1:01 – A Win Sports journalist asks Atlético Nacional’s Andrés Andrade:
“How nice the show with the public, isn’t it?” Https://t.co/B1E6tWIsQVhttps://t.co/OUh26sF6k3
– Carl Worswick (@cworswick) August 4, 2021
Today I was hurt by the journalism of Win and his journalists trying to minimize what happened. That question is embarrassing, and Andrade’s answer is worse. They live in a world of lies. https://t.co/a0TtOGX0e9
– Lucas Escobar Calle in the ???? (@Lucas_EscobarC) August 4, 2021
Criticisms of Carlos Antonio Vélez and the transmission of Win Sports amid the excesses
But the criticism in networks had already started long before the end of the meeting. One of the main objectives was the commentator Carlos Antonio Vélez, in addition to the transmission in general. On social media, each channel post about the match was heavily discussed:
Irresponsible continue with a match after what happened
– Jenny Viviana Semanate (@ _Jenny_87) August 4, 2021
You are nefarious, legitimizing the violence witnessed in the stadium and continuing to broadcast a game as if nothing had happened. How bad we are
– Alejo Ramírez # 12D (@ alejodt16) August 4, 2021
Even some colleagues regretted the way it happened, as journalist Sarah Castro did:
There were plenty of jokes and information was missing in the transmission
— Sarah Castro Lizarazo (@saritacas) August 4, 2021
Martín de Francisco, a frequent critic of Vélez, was also told about the speaker’s “lack of sensitivity”, that when the meeting resumed he said “hallelujah, hallelujah”:
Francisco, to top it off, Carlos Antonio Velez says “Hallelujah Hallelujah” at the start of the second half between Santa Fe and Nacional, as if he had not seen what happened, where there is respect for life, that lack of sensitivity.
– Relajito (@ Relaj1to) August 4, 2021
But Win wasn’t the only target. Any journalist who spoke about what was happening on the field was also confronted:
Nobody cares about the result after what happened, have empathy brother!
– andres felipe blair (@ Blair0640) August 4, 2021
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