{"id":3330,"date":"2010-03-16T07:36:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T11:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2010-03-16T07:32:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T11:32:56","slug":"germany-hits-back-after-italys-schumacher-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/germany-hits-back-after-italys-schumacher-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany hits back after Italy&#8217;s Schumacher criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The German press has hit back after its Italian colleagues were scathing of Michael Schumacher&#8217;s comeback performance in Bahrain.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the former Ferrari driver finished sixth behind his Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg, the Genoa-based Il Secolo XIX newspaper crowned him the &#8220;world champion of arrogance&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>La Gazzetta dello Sport joked that the German failed to turn up in the island Kingdom, and Corriere della Sera said the anonymous performance had been a &#8220;strange Sunday afternoon for Herr Michael&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With all respect for Schumacher, the 41-year-old living legend, Ferrari made the right choice with the 28-year-old Alonso,&#8221; Corriere della Sera added.<\/p>\n<p>La Gazzetta dello Sport praised Alonso for cutting &#8220;the umbilical cord that tied Ferrari to the Schumacher era&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The widely circulated German daily Bild Zeitung hit back: &#8220;Just as there are bad losers, it is also possible to be a bad winner&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper pointed out that the Italians failed to mention that its &#8220;double victory&#8221; only took place due to &#8220;Vettel&#8217;s technical problems&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And the German weekly Sport Bild added: &#8220;Does Schumacher really deserve this (criticism)?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rome-based Corriere dello Sport said: &#8220;There was no disgrace (in Schumacher&#8217;s performance), but he doesn&#8217;t deserve much praise, either.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German press has hit back after its Italian colleagues were scathing of Michael Schumacher&#8217;s comeback performance in Bahrain. \u00a0 After the former Ferrari driver finished sixth behind his Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg, the Genoa-based Il Secolo XIX newspaper crowned him the &#8220;world champion of arrogance&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,943,92,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3331,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions\/3331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}