{"id":46031,"date":"2025-08-05T02:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/46031\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T02:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:38:12","slug":"rakitic-apology-after-modric-post-includes-insult-to-juventus-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/46031\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakitic apology after Modric post includes insult to Juventus fans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>              <a class=\"mg-blog-thumb\" href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/rakitic-apology-modric-post-insult-juventus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ivan-Rakitic-Luka-Modric-IG.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-906396 has-webp\" alt=\"Ivan Rakitic and Luka Modric on Instagram\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;max-width:1200px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ivan Rakitic and Luka Modric on Instagram<\/p>\n<p><\/a>              &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Rakitic has been forced to issue an apology to Juventus fans after he accidentally used an insulting chant against them when celebrating <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/video-modric-greeted-huge-crowd-ac-milan-fans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Modric\u2019s move to Milan.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Croatia international Rakitic retired in July after a career spent with FC Basel, Schalke 04, Sevilla, Barcelona, Al-Shabab and Hajduk Split.<\/p>\n<p>He is good friends with fellow Croatian Modric and posted on Instagram to <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/modric-milan-must-not-be-content-champions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">celebrate this new experience of joining Milan as a free agent.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Modric congratulations included Juventus insult<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/modric-first-milan-interview.jpg\" class=\"lazyload lazyload wp-image-903588 has-webp size-medium\" alt=\"Luka Modric during his first interview as a Milan player on Wednesday, July 16, 2025.\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/803;max-width:1200px\"\/>Luka Modric during his first interview as a Milan player on Wednesday, July 16, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>However, what the former midfielder didn\u2019t realise was that the song he picked to accompany this image of them together was not just in support of Milan, but actively insulting towards Juventus.<\/p>\n<p>When it was pointed out to him, Rakitic removed the offending clip and posted an apology on his Instagram Stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish to extend my sincere apologies to the supporters of Juventus. My intention was solely to use a song associated with AC Milan to congratulate my friend Luka Modric, without being aware of the historical context or the lyrics tied to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had absolutely no desire to offend anyone, least of all a club for which I hold the utmost respect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The song was a chant heard regularly in the stadium, \u2018Chi non salta e un gobbo Juventino,\u2019 translated as \u2018whoever doesn\u2019t jump is a Juventus supporter.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Gobbo means hunchback and is an insulting term used to describe Juve fans.<\/p>\n<p>                                &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tPost navigation&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ivan Rakitic and Luka Modric on Instagram &#13; Ivan Rakitic has been forced to issue an apology to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-46031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}