After the team shared an image of their players dressed up for Halloween, the defender has apologised for his distasteful costume <\/p>\n
Bayern Munich right-back Rafinha has issued an apology after his offensive Halloween costume led to a social media outcry.<\/p>\n
In a photograph shared on the club\u2019s official Twitter account from the teams\u2019 Halloween party, Rafinha appeared in an outfit imitating a traditional Arab dress and holding cardboard boxes bearing the German word “vorsicht”, which translates as “caution”.<\/p>\n
Criticism of his apparently crude depiction of a bomber swiftly followed and the tweet was later deleted, leading to an apology from Rafinha.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n “Halloween is a scary celebration with exaggerated costumes,” the 33-year-old posted on Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n “It was not my intention to anger anyone through my disguise or hurt someone’s feelings.”<\/p>\n However, Rafinha had to post his apology twice as the first time he included another photo of himself in the distasteful costume, before quickly deleting and attaching an image of him in action for Bayern instead.<\/p>\n The German champions tweeted the image to their 4.51 million followers, with plenty immediately drawn to the Brazilian\u2019s choice of costume.<\/p>\n It\u2019s another unwanted issue for Bayern to have to deal with, having endured a tough start to the season both on and off the pitch.<\/p>\n Niko Kovac was appointed as the club\u2019s new manager in the summer after an excellent spell in charge of Eintracht Frankfurt, but came in for criticism earlier this month after a spell of four matches without a win before the previous international break.<\/p>\n Harsh reports from the media led to Bayern\u2019s\u00a0chief executive, president and sporting director organising a surprise press conference to hit back at their critics, where they accused journalists and pundits of disrespect and ‘indecent’ reporting.<\/p>\n President Uli Hoeness also launched a scathing attack on former Bayern left-back Juan Bernat , where he claimed that the club decided to sell the Spaniard after his performance against Sevilla in the Champions League last season.<\/p>\n Bayern have since regained form, winning all four\u00a0of their matches since the October international break, but Rafinha\u2019s Halloween slip-up has again put them in the limelight for the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n Their next match will see them take on SC Freiburg in the Bundesliga this Saturday.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After the team shared an image of their players dressed up for Halloween, the defender has apologised for his distasteful costume Bayern Munich right-back Rafinha has issued an apology after his offensive Halloween costume led to a social media outcry. In a photograph shared on the club\u2019s official Twitter account from the teams\u2019 Halloween party,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n