Footballer who shouted out wife and girlfriend on live TV has totally logical explanation here
Surely you recall the footballer who recently shouted out both his wife and "girlfriend" on live TV during a post-match interview. It was an own-goal for the ages.
Except our protagonist, Ghanaian striker Mohammed Anas, says there's a very wholesome, perfectly logical, totally believable explanation for all this.
We'll let you judge for yourself, though.
Anas plays for Free State Stars FC in South Africa's pro league. He scored two goals against Ajax Cape Town recently, which led to the fateful post-match interview.
"And I appreciate my fans, also," Anas says in the clip below. "My wife and my girlfriend... yeah, I mean my wife. Yeah, sorry to say... I'm sorry... I'm so sorry, my wife..."
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The cringeworthy moment has since garnered international news coverage.
But in an interview with CNN published Wednesday, Anas said this is all a big misunderstanding.
"My family knows that I call my daughter my girlfriend. That's what I was talking about. I don't have a girlfriend," said the suddenly famous soccer star.
Ohhh, OK. That explains everything, Mohammed. Uh-huh. Yup. Nothing to see here.
Sam Laird is Mashable's Senior Sports Reporter. He covers the wide, weird world of sports from all angles -- as well as occasional other topics -- from Mashable's San Francisco bureau. Before joining Mashable in November 2011, his freelance work appeared in publications including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slam, and East Bay Express. Sam is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and basketball and burritos take up most of his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @samcmlaird.
