Home > Media & Platforms > Journalism “The World Cup is supposed to be about uniting communities around the world, and my comment didn’t reflect that spirit,” Abigail Velez says Los Angeles reporter Abigail Velez has apologized for a “thoughtless” joke she made about Bosnia ahead of the men’s World Cup match between Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United States. “In a poor effort to have a little fun with World Cup competition, I took it too far and made a thoughtless comment on air that was