Manchester United Starlet Federico Macheda's 'Insult' Of Wayne Rooney Product Of Translation Error
Macheda didn't mean to insult Rooney and was instead affectionate towards him...
By Subhankar Mondal
Oct 7, 2010 7:05:00 PM
Manchester United striker Federico Macheda's supposed insult of team-mate Wayne Rooney was taken out of context and was a product of mistranslation.
The 19-year-old is with the Italy U-21 team at the moment and was quoted by Thursday's la Gazzetta dello Sport as saying, "Rooney is a really great person, he always gives me advice, but he's a bit working class and vulgar."
The actual word that Macheda used while speaking in Italian was coatto, which is a Roman slang for 'unrefined and working class kid'. However, Macheda didn't mean it in a derogatory way but this was lost on the English-speaking media.
The former Lazio youngster also added "like me" after coatto but it was not picked up by the majority of the media.
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