He used it to describe his colleague Onana.. A gorilla emoji raises a crisis for the Argentine Garnacho with the English Federation | sports

Cameroonian international Andre Onana, Manchester United’s English goalkeeper, defended his Argentine teammate Alejandro Garnacho after the latter used a gorilla emoji in a post on social media platforms that was directed at Onana.

Garnacho (19 years old) posted a picture of the players congratulating Onana after he saved a penalty kick during Manchester’s victory over Copenhagen, Denmark, with a clean goal last Tuesday in the Champions League, and kept Al-Manio’s hopes alive to reach the eighth final of the main continental competition.

Onana confirmed on his Instagram account that he understands Garnacho’s behavior.

He added, “People cannot choose the thing that makes me feel insulted. I know exactly what Garnacho meant: strength and solidity. Things must not be exaggerated.”

Onana posted a picture of himself embracing his young Argentine colleague.

🔴🇦🇷 FA have been investigating into Garnacho’s social media post in which he used gorilla emojis over a picture of Andre Onana’s penalty save.

🇨🇲 Onana replies: “People can’t choose what I should be offended by. Garnacho meant power and strenght. This should go no further”. pic.twitter.com/k6kea9Iwgz

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) October 26, 2023

In turn, Dutchman Eric Ten Hag confirmed that he is “not worried about stopping Garnacho at this moment,” and continued, “We are talking with the Football Association, but what you see and I can confirm is that we are together, we are united, and you saw that in Andre Onana’s post.”

The English Football Association said it had seen Garnacho’s post on social media and was investigating the matter.

You people are weird on this earth. So Bernardo Silva tweeted a childhood photo of Mendy alongside the mascot of Spanish chocolate conguitos and said “guess who?”

Mendy laughing, responded”1-0″. But the vigilantes came for Silva. Crying where there is no harm done or intended. pic.twitter.com/DsBDRkuYR6

— Frank (@el_shinkafi) September 22, 2019

It is noteworthy that in 2019, Manchester City player Bernardo Silva was suspended for one match and fined 50 thousand pounds sterling after the FA Committee accepted that he “did not intend” for a tweet about his colleague Benjamin Mendy to be “racist.”

Silva compared his colleague Mendy to the character on a box of a type of chocolate available in Spain and Portugal.

In 2021, United striker Edinson Cavani was suspended for 3 matches and fined 100,000 pounds due to a post on social media that contained an offensive Spanish phrase.