Mexican soccer team Atlas FC is being SLAMMED online after bizarrely using a quote from Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels to defend controversial MLS referee call

In one of the most bizarre and reprehensible defenses of a referee’s decision, the Mexican soccer team Atlas FC posted a tweet quoting Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

During the team’s Leagues Cup match against New York City FC, a video assistant referee review ruled NYCFC’s late equalizing goal offside and took it off the board in a match Atlas won 1–0.

A Mexican YouTuber by the name of Gabo Montiel – also known as Werevertumorro – criticized the overturned decision while citing a perceived history of questionable calls in favor of Atlas in Liga MX play.

“Today they helped Atlas and they will say: the referees were not against the mx league?” I swear it can influence many people’s opinion… remember when in ligamx everything went in favor of Atlas until people started pointing it out and out of nowhere the favors disappeared? Well, something like this happened today,” Montiel’s tweet read.

Despite not tagging the club in his statement, Atlas saw it and decided to respond – tagging Werevertumorro – and used a Goebbels quote in his defence.

The tweet paraphrases Goebbels’ quote ‘Lie, lie lie. If you tell a big enough lie and keep repeating it, people will eventually believe it.”

“This shot is crystal clear,” the tweet reads in Spanish. The offside happens on the first play. It’s unfortunate how “influencers” and media “analysts” manipulate and generate ideas of “supposed help”.

But recalling what Goebbels, the Nazi information minister (Hitler’s right-hand man) said, applies perfectly: “Lie, Lie, Lie [and it will] to stay. The bigger a lie, the more people will believe it.” @werevertumorro.”

Shocked, Montiel tweeted again. ‘Have you ever had anything like this? Do you remember a team that made a tweet of this type? Replying to an ‘influencer’ (so they say)… and quoting a Nazi? I’ve never considered myself an influencer, but I do enjoy influencing an institution that juggles so much.”

The tweet stood at the time of publication, sparking reactions of confusion and shock.

One football journalist wrote: ‘I am shocked that this is still going on after two hours and NO ONE at @AtlasFC fails to see the problem with a tweet that not only mentions Goebbels, but (Hitler’s right-hand man) is also there… INSANE…’

Drake Hills of Tennessee wrote, “I cited the Nazi Secretary of Information for offside. This is Leagues Cup (?)’

“I’m very, very, very, very (very) surprised that Atlas still hasn’t removed this tweet,” ESPN’s Mexican soccer writer Cesar Hernandez said.

Newsday’s Ryan Gerbosi wrote, “Atlas administrator referring to Goebbels and the Nazil while complaining about the reaction to an offside signal *going his way* was not on my #LeaguesCup bingo card.”

Social media was stunned at the outrageous tweet and that it had not been removed

The Athletic’s Jeff Rueter said, “I can’t believe we had to clarify this, but there isn’t a single event on a football field that ever warrants a comparison to the Holocaust.”

Mexican fans were also shocked by the tweet and response, with one saying, “In which semester of communication (school) [are you taught] to associate your brand with the Third Reich?’

Another said, “And there was no way to explain it without quoting the Nazis before noon on Monday?”

Atlas is set in the city of Guadalajara, which has the second largest Jewish population in the country after the capital Mexico City.