Jozy The Twit?
By: Dave Martinez | October 27th, 2009
Jozy Altidore was excluded from the Hull City game with no explanation for his absence to be found. But the young lass loves his social networking sites, so the mystery didn’t take very long to figure out. While Hull was already playing, Jozy sent his fans a little tweet to explain what had happened:
“Apologize to the all of you. I showed up late. Made a big mistake I’m very very sorry”
Putting out a tweet like that amidst the English media is like throwing chum into shark infested waters. Soon, reporters picked up on it, and by the end of the game, manager Phil Brown was chewing out his young striker for having the audacity to post in house news to the world. The punishment? Jozy is being fined two weeks pay.
Ouch.
Not the biggest grievance ever for the striker to deal with, but it couldn’t have come at a worse time. All in all, his tenure in Hull City had started with a blast, and has fizzled like a sparkler. Adding this type of no-no to his reputation will not help the young American star find time on the pitch. Knowing Jozy, the kid is respectful to a fault, and most likely meant nothing in the gesture but the best. But was he wrong for doing what he did? Share your thoughts.
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As much as people do not like Brown, it should be noted that he is still the manager and he has the last say and will run the ship according to what he thinks is right. If he is not, he will ultimately pay with his job.
As per Jozy, he needs to learn about being a professional and tactfulness. Technology has made it possible to shoot quick updates and keep others informed but he needs to check first with his organization what is allowed and what is not. As someone noted on another blog, he should have been apologizing to his teammates and coaches first instead of tweeting.
Hope Jozy learns from it and gets his head straight.
Cheers
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To be fair:
a) This is still an emerging technology, with no clear-cut “rules” for what is and isn’t acceptable. Sure, more and more people are getting in trouble for tweets and facebook updates, but it’s still all too new for everyone to know all the rules. I would be shocked if the organization already has an official policy in place – most companies are still trying to wrap their heads around blogging and personal websites. It’s from incidents like this that the official rules (eventually) develop.
b) Jozy wasn’t at all being a dick or disrespectful in his tweet – he was apologizing to his fans for a mistake that he was owning up to. Not even remotely calling anyone unfair or a cheat – stuff that has and should have gotten other people into trouble in the past.
c) In response to Pico’s comment, we don’t know if he had or hadn’t already apologized to his team and coaches before making his post.
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The Curse of Jozy Altidore, Phil Brown has picked up on it. I even told Stammler about it and he couldn’t deny it. About these social sites, like twitter (the worse of the worst), myspace (completely insignificant now) and facebook. Athletes and the likes who use them seem immature, attention wanting, you people got to know my business to keep me important attitudes suck. If I was someone close to Jozy, I would tell him to stop it, makes him sound like a baby, like a child to need to use such infantile sites..dude, you’re a professional..get your mind elsewhere.
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Mike,
What I meant to say is that Jozy’s effort at that point in time should be to get in good grace of his teammates. Granted, organizations have a hard time getting their heads around new media and 24/7 availability, but it is exactly for those reasons that a player in this case would go the extra mile to make sure that it is OK to do what Jozy did. If you recall, most athletes that give an apology usually do it through an organization communication or under the supervision of the organization.
I just hope that the young players learn from this instance. It is nice to be in contact and available to the fans but the first priority is to the organization that is paying their salaries.
Cheers
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Phil Brown sacked, hmmmm..the Curse of Jozy Altidore lives on, it is getting stronger and stronger.
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Larry, if Xerez winds up sinking to segunda yet again, I am on board with The AltiCurse.
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Villareal (6pts) and Xerez(5pts) are in relegation zone as I write. The Curse is gaining Strength.
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