‘Save your time, I’m not going to see it,’ Zelic tells World Cup trolls
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SBS World Cup presenter Lucy Zelic has told World Cup trolls not to waste their time, saying she hasn't bothered to read the abuse directed at her over her pronunciation of players' names.
Zelic has been criticised for insisting on pronouncing the names as they would be in the player's home nation, with some people describing it as "annoying" and "insufferable", and others telling her to "just stop".
But Zelic shrugged off the criticism today, telling RN Breakfast she would "keep doing what I'm doing".
"It hasn't been stressful for me," she said.
"If you are going to say anything negative … I'm not going to see it, so I will say save your time," she said.
Before the World Cup, Zelic said she decided not to look at social media notifications because she "didn't see the value in it".
She said she had been "extremely touched" when co-host Craig Foster defended her pronunciation on air, as she held back tears.
"It made me extremely emotional," she said.
Former Socceroo Foster had said Zelic's correct pronunciation of names was simply continuing the legacy of SBC football icon Les Murray.
"This issue around pronunciations, we actually spoke about it on the way over on the plane, and I was explaining to you Les was always very specific on his pronunciations for a number of reasons," Foster said.
"Firstly because that's what SBS is about. SBS is about respecting every single culture and of course the way you use the language is the most important way to show respect to someone — through the name.
"If you can't get someone's name right it means you have no regard, you haven't done the work, you haven't tried.
"Secondly, Les also did it out of respect for the game. The game broadly and also the players who play the game was always very important to him."
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