{"id":30261,"date":"2014-11-01T16:02:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T08:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=30261"},"modified":"2014-11-01T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T07:29:00","slug":"sampdoria-president-apologizes-for-racist-remark-about-inter-milan-counterpart-erick-thohir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/01\/sampdoria-president-apologizes-for-racist-remark-about-inter-milan-counterpart-erick-thohir\/","title":{"rendered":"Sampdoria President apologizes for racist remark about Inter Milan counterpart Erick Thohir"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30262\" style=\"width: 443px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Moratti_particolare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30262\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Moratti_particolare.jpg\" alt=\"From 1995 until 2013, Moratti was the president of F.C. Internazionale Milano (Inter). Wikimedia Commons.\" width=\"443\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Moratti_particolare.jpg 443w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Moratti_particolare-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From 1995 until 2013, Moratti was the president of F.C. Internazionale Milano (Inter). Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>GENOA, Italy\u2014Sampdoria President Massimo Ferrero apologized Sunday after saying he told Massimo Moratti to \u201ckick out that\u00a0Filipino\u201d in reference to Indonesian businessman Erick Thohir, in the latest racism gaffe to hit Italian football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not mean to disrespect Mr. Thohir, the Inter directors or the people of the\u00a0Philippines, who I have always had wonderful relationships with,\u201d Ferrero said in a statement on the club\u2019s website. \u201cI was trying to praise Massimo Moratti and all he has given to Inter and Italian football for 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During an interview on a television show earlier in the day, Ferrero discussed Moratti\u2019s decision to resign as honorary president of Inter Milan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not right that Moratti was treated this way, I am very upset for him,\u201d Ferrero said. \u201cI had told him: kick out that\u00a0Filipino.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thohir replaced Moratti as Inter president last year, after buying a majority stake in the club.<\/p>\n<p>Moratti, who was Inter president for 18 years, was then handed the honorary title, but stepped down on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Italian football federation president Carlo Tavecchio is serving a six-month UEFA ban following a racist comment during his election campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENOA, Italy\u2014Sampdoria President Massimo Ferrero apologized Sunday after saying he told Massimo Moratti to \u201ckick out that\u00a0Filipino\u201d in reference to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":30262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-sports","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}