An open microphone in a television studio on Saturday hunted former Dutch soccer player Marco van Basten saying the Nazi proclamation "Sieg Heil" on Fox Sports , where he works as a commentator .
The event occurred at the end of the interview that a Dutch journalist was doing in German to the German Frank Wormuth , coach of the Heracles Almelo , from the Johan Cruyff Arena.
When both said goodbye, Van Basten was heard on the air saying "Sieg Heil" from the studio, a moment that was widely shared on social networks in the Netherlands.
The chain itself asked the former player for a live explanation , to which Van Basten reacted by offering his apologies and saying that it was a "wrong joke."
"It was not my intention to shock people, I just wanted to ridicule Hans ' German, " he said in reference to the language skills of the journalist who did the interview.
The controversial statement came on the same weekend in which Dutch professional football made a collective gesture against racism .
The games of the first and second division stopped after the initial whistle in response to the racist chants that an Excelsior Rotterdam player, Ahmad Mendes Moreira , suffered last Sunday in the field of Den Bosch .
The players stood still for the first sixty seconds of each game while the phrase "Racism? Then we didn't play" appeared on the electronic scoreboards of the stadiums.
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