Uruguayan Footballer Apologises After Referring to Reggae Boyz as Africans
Uruguayan striker Edinson Cavani yesterday apologised to Jamaica and Jamaican people after accidentally calling the Reggae Boyz an African team.
Jamaica will face Uruguay on June 13 in the Copa America football tournament.
Cavani was asked to give his thoughts on the Jamaican team. His response:
“As any other African team, Jamaica are going to be strong.”
An apology was then posted via his official Twitter account shortly after his statement.
“First I want to apologise to Jamaica and its people,” he wrote.
“I wanted to make a comparison between similar styles and playing characteristics between Jamaican national team and those of African sides, but honestly I only put across half that thought and it came out sounding awful.
“In any case, I’d like to publicly ask for forgiveness, and I hope my mistake will be taken with humour rather than offence.”
Uruguay are defending champions and have won the Copa America competition a record 15 times.
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No offense taken, No offense at all I’m a proud African
him dont say anything wrong we aere that an prod
him dont say anything wrong we aere that an prod
Big up yourself youth a comment we all accept.. You did nothing wrong… We are, i am proud African Jamaican..
no problem youth, the great peter tosh said …”no matter where you come from, as long as you are a black man, you are an african”
It is a big problem. This show the ignorance of so-called negros & natives.we are not africans. We are the real jews.came in to slavery through Africa into the americas,we were sold into slavery by those stinking africans and arabs to the stinking white man until this day.yes u so-called Uruguayan, of native and Negro is one people, of the nation of israel/jews.read on our constitution, psalms 147v19-20. Exo 11v7.jer 2 v 14.ezek 39 v 23-24.and yes christ is a so-called negro from the tribe of Judah/so-called black American. Read jer 14v2.reval 1v7.pslm 13-15.i am israel servant from the tribe… Read more »
This is very deep, the mystery is being reveal.their plot is being Un covered.you so-called white people, africans, arabs, Chinese, Japanese, ect ect.ect. we now who u are.the killers and exploit ers,oppressors, of the real jews, it’s time to die. (YAHAWASHY) our deliver is comming to killed you all for the confusion, controversy, executions of the real jews/so-called negros & natives.
No offense taken i am very proud of my African heritages.
No offense taken i am very proud of my African heritages.
Uruguayans are very racist it was meant that way, I’ve dealt with them for years he could have said worse nasty lot!!!
I am a proud decendant of West Africa, so absolutely no offence taken. You have reminded some us who we are.
ppl are supid to blow this up like it something, FACT OF THE MANNER WE ARE AFRICANS, dam!!!!
we are Africans just that we live in Jamaican nothing wrong big fella its all gud
My God! Are we a nation of such dense mental capacity? I am no African and my team should be identified correctly. Have some depth people. Dont be so shallow ….its embarrassing. Why do you think he quickly apologized. What does the mistake says about the way he thinks? Do you remember when Bill Clinton said Jessie Jackson won South Carolina also with a smirk on his face?….Same kind of thinking.
I am not African. I am Jamaican, and there should be no confusion there. My forefathers/mothers were Arawak Indians, Maroons and Germans. I have hazel eyes and light skin, an ode to my German foreparents, but I also have thick hair, an ode to my Arawak roots So if I say I am African, then I also have to say I am German, and Arawak. So he should and did apologize. Now as to whether it is genuine or not, I do not know, because I am not in his head/mind. But since he did apologize, we should take it… Read more »
I’m not offended, I’m of African descent, most Jamaicans are. As opposed to other apologies we’ve heard for racist comments in sports, this sounds like a genuine apology and besides I don’t think he was being racist by using the word ‘African’.
I have to laff when l see some ppl who say they are not African lol If Vivene ever go to Germany and say she is german they spit on her!!!lol
He did the right thing in apologizing for his incorrect statement, which I think was unintentional, just a slip of the tongue, we all do that sometimes for one reason or the other…. What is odd here is how some of us is so quick to identify other than where you were born! I’m still trying to process that! It must be, to say, let me identify with my ancestors! But you were not born in AFRICA etc.! For the life of me how can a person of any nation identify other than where they were born?! And if anyone… Read more »