With one quick and sad gesture,AGreek football player Giorgos Katidis got himself banned for a lifetime from the national group. Among things you must never do on the pitch, delivering a Heil, Hitler' salute must be close to the top. That's as reported by The NY Daily News, exactly what Katidis is speculated to have inked at a current AEK Athens game. The movie below (h/t SI.com) shows the 20-year-old score the game-winning goal against Veria when he will take off his shirt to celebrate. To date, nothing we have perhaps not seen many times before. Then comes a gesture that's famous around as a Nazi salute the world. It is crucial that you note how famous this horrible gesture is because Katidis would later claim he didn't understand what the praise meant, and was simply gesturing to his friend. More on that in a moment. The backlash for an incredibly bad gesture has been enormous and swift. Probably the most significant, for the young basketball player, is a huge lifetime ban. Calling Katidis' actions a "deep insult to any or all victims of Nazi brutality," Greece's soccer federation put an instantaneous end to the player's international career, The Associated Press reported. Supporters of AEK Athens are equally outraged and have pleaded with the club to dismiss the midfielder as well. According to the report, the staff could make a determination on that very point soon. This specific story is reminiscent of OlympianAVoula Papachristou who was sent home from the summertime games after tweeting improper comments. Representing your state can be an honor, not a right. The minute you shame your staff and fellow players with ignorant and shameful activities, you lose any chance to use your nation's colors. Not that Katidis is saying to be any such thing a lot more than just exceptionally unreasonable. Per the report, he took to Twitter and provided these, "I am perhaps not racist in any way. Fascism is abhorred by me. If I understood that it meant something I'd not have done it. I get it done ever." and would know the effects AEK Athens coach Ewald Lienen is buying it, because he found his player's defense right after, "He is really a young child who not have any political ideas. He most likely found this kind of salute on the net or someplace else and did it without knowing what it means." That brings me back again to Katidis' statements. This is actually the face of a guy whoAapparentlyAdoesn't understand what he was doing and was, in accordance with him, just aiming at a hurt teammate. Not that he's even looking in the direction he's "pointing." There's also the fact that the gesture is widely famous. The claim 's almost as ridiculous as his tattoo of two peopleAkissingAon his arm. It's difficult to trust poor people baby was only saluting his pal and didn't know the degree and weight of his touch. Well, he knows now and the afternoon we've our importantAreminderAof. The Nazi salute continues to be quite definitely horrible. Hit me up on Twitter for more real talk.
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