Algeria player slaps female reporter

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Love it!!!!!!!!  :giggle: sorry, I don't love the fact that he slapped a female, but just how some people never change, and take their society's mentality with them to a global event like the world cup. Amazing.

I am dying to find video footage of this, but there isn't one.

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PRETORIA, South Africa ? Algeria soccer player Rafik Saifi slapped a female journalist across the face as the aftermath of the United States? dramatic World Cup victory turned ugly at Loftus Versfeld Stadium on Wednesday night.

While walking through the interview zone, Saifi spotted writer Asma Halimi, who works for Algerian newspaper Competition, and struck her with his open hand in front of dozens of witnesses. Halimi responded by striking the player in the mouth.

Saifi then threw a sports drink bottle at a wall in the interview area, as Halimi was ushered away by security staff.

Saifi came on as substitute for the last five minutes of the USA?s 1-0 victory.

?I said nothing to him and he reached over and hit me,? Halimi said to Yahoo! Sports. ?So I hit him back. I said nothing to him first.?  :ROFLMAO:

It is understood that Saifi and Halimi had previously had a difference of opinion over an article she wrote for her newspaper.

?She was standing there and the guy came here and he hit her,? said Francisco Aguilar Chang, a reporter from Guatemala who witnessed the incident. ?Then she hit him back and her nail caught his lip.?

Saifi and Algerian football association officials refused to comment when quizzed by Yahoo! Sports.

The Algerian team has come under heavy criticism in its homeland after a disappointing World Cup in which it finished at the bottom of Group C and was knocked out of the tournament.

When asked if she would launch an official complaint with governing body FIFA and the Algerian F.A., Halimi replied: ?Of course.?

 
mrzurnaci said:
isn't it kind of rude to hit a reporter? especially since she isn't apart of his culture at all?
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I think you wanna clarify your statement.  It implies that it would not be rude for him to hit a reporter if she was part of his culture.
 
jonadona said:
I think you wanna clarify your statement.  It implies that it would not be rude for him to hit a reporter if she was part of his culture.
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not really, I said that it's rude for him to hit her, I was adding that she wasn't apart of his culture.

here's what I said

isn't it kind of rude to hit a reporter? especially since she isn't apart of his culture at all?
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it doesn't mean that I think it isn't rude if she was his culture. I was adding to the fact that she wasn't in his culture, and that it's rude to go to another country and "bestow your culture" on them.
 
mrzurnaci said:
not really, I said that it's rude for him to hit her, I was adding that she wasn't apart of his culture.

here's what I said
it doesn't mean that I think it isn't rude if she was his culture.
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I got too many things to say to this..

NO SH*T
 
davidb said:
I got too many things to say to this..

NO SH*T
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"While walking through the interview zone, Saifi spotted writer Asma Halimi, who works for Algerian newspaper Competition, and struck her with his open hand in front of dozens of witnesses. Halimi responded by striking the player in the mouth."

Not that it matters, but I'm pretty sure she's part of his culture.
 
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