{"id":10455,"date":"2018-06-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/aussie-world-cup-host-fights-back-tears-while-talking-about-online-abuse\/"},"modified":"2018-06-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T00:00:00","slug":"aussie-world-cup-host-fights-back-tears-while-talking-about-online-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/aussie-world-cup-host-fights-back-tears-while-talking-about-online-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie World Cup Host Fights Back Tears While Talking About Online Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SBS World Cup hosts <strong>Lucy Zelic <\/strong>and<strong> Craig Foster<\/strong> have become visibly emotional while talking about the torrent of abuse <strong>Zelic<\/strong> has received for her pronunciation of names.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cI wanted to just touch on this stuff I\u2019ve seen regarding the pronunciations because I think you\u2019re doing an absolutely amazing job,\u201d Foster said.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThis issue around pronunciations, we actually spoke about it on the way over on the plane, and I was explaining to you (former SBS host) Les (Murray) was always very specific on his pronunciations for a number of reasons.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cFirstly because that\u2019s what SBS is about. SBS is about respecting every single culture\u2026<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cSecondly, Les also did it out of respect for the game\u2026<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cSo what you\u2019ve done here has been brilliant. It\u2019s not only proper, it\u2019s actually important for Australia \u2026 Having linguistic skills and being multilingual is something you should be very proud of.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Zelic said she wanted to continue the Les Murray\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cYou\u2019re not pronouncing it for anyone other than the nation you\u2019re covering. Out of respect to them,\u201d she said.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWhen I have had Colombians, for example, write to me and say \u2018I\u2019ve been living in Australia for 37 years, constantly having my name mispronounced has always been a difficulty for me, to have it pronounced correctly is really quite touching\u2019, that is why we do what we do at SBS.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIt\u2019s always been about servicing the minority and about respecting the cultures we have in Australia.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LucyZelic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LucyZelic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Craig_Foster?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Craig_Foster<\/a>&#39;s emotional explanation of the importance of correct pronunciation and Les Murray&#39;s legacy.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lYu0DSQYlS\">pic.twitter.com\/lYu0DSQYlS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; SBS &#8211; The World Game (@TheWorldGame) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheWorldGame\/status\/1011245734295793667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SBS World Cup hosts Lucy Zelic and Craig Foster have become visibly emotional while talking about the torrent of abuse Zelic has received for her pronunciation of names. \u201cI wanted to just touch on this stuff I\u2019ve seen regarding the pronunciations because I think you\u2019re doing an absolutely amazing job,\u201d Foster said. \u201cThis issue around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-10455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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