Threats against the Arsenal coach and his family .. The violations of "social media" continue
Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta announced on Friday that he had received threats against his family on social media, and joined the calls for more efforts to end these violations.
Arteta said he was no longer using his Twitter account after reporting the incident to the club.
"I think if we read everything that was written about us, we might have to stay in bed for several days," he added.
"I think we are all exposed to that on these platforms, and that is why I prefer not to read, because that will affect me personally a lot more at the moment when someone wants to expose my family," he said.
"Because that happened, the club knew about it, and we tried to do something about it. That's all. We have to live with it" because "it will not stop tomorrow, we know that, but in the medium and long term, can we do something about it?" This is what I am trying to achieve. "
Officials in English football sent an open letter to the curators of the social networking sites "Twitter" and "Facebook", calling on them to take strict measures to combat the racist abuse that affected many players recently.
Several players have been subjected to racist abuse on social media in recent weeks, including Marcus Rashford, French Anthony Martial and Dutchman Axel Tuanzebi from Manchester United and Chelsea's right-back Reese James.
Newcastle United coach Steve Bruce said Thursday that he had learned that some social media users wanted him to die, while referee Mike Dean asked to be excused from running a Premier League match this weekend, after he and his family had received death threats.
"I am not the only one who suffers from similar things. I think that when you win, everything is beautiful and you are great and the best coach, and when you lose it is the exact opposite," Arteta said.
He added, "This is the reality and it is not pleasant. When it becomes personally against me I can handle it, but when the family is included, that is a different story."
For his part, German coach Thomas Tuchel said that he trained himself to ignore anything said or written about it as a defense mechanism.
"I had to learn and train myself not to read about me, neither in good times nor in difficult times," the coach who led the English team made a great start after his dismissal from Paris Saint-Germain.
He added, "If the matter is there and everyone talks strongly about you, then this raises something inside you, and if they talk badly about you, of course, this matter will remain with you as well."
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