There is a long, winding and tortuous road that must be travelled to get from “being mad about an offside call” to a final destination of “citing Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels,” but the Atlas FC Twitter account took that cursed journey on Monday.
Nothing good will come from utilizing the Third Reich to get your point across about a Leagues Cup game, but the Liga MX club tried anyway when discussing a call from the previous night’s game against NYCFC.
Did we mention the call actually went in favor of Atlas and also that it won the match? Those facts are both beside the point and yet still even more mind-blowing when examining a tweet that — to be clear — referenced two of the principal architects of World War 2 and the Holocaust.
With Atlas leading 1-0 in Sunday’s match, NYCFC appeared to notch a late equalizer through Justin Haak. After a VAR review, however, the goal was disallowed and Atlas would hold on for the win.
The protests against that call were apparently too much for the Atlas Twitter account to take, as it opted to use Hitler and his chief propagandist to make a very normal and salient point about analysts breaking down the offside call.
Several hours after it was posted, Atlas would delete the tweet and issue an apology.
To all social media managers (and just, people): Unless you are talking specifically about World War 2 and/or the Holocaust, the Nazi references are probably a bad idea!
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