German media have condemned the fixed booing by Munich followers at full-back Marc Cucurella in the course of the semi-final between Spain and France, following an alleged penalty for handball ignored by the referee within the quarter-final towards the host nation.
Kicker, essentially the most specific of all, describes the Germans’ response as “shameful, silly and opposite to the concept of honest play”. “The 1000’s of followers sporting the white and pink shirt of the German DFB have been continually whistling Marc Cucurella. Even when he was solely on the ball to make contact with it, that’s, just for a fraction of a second. That is shameful and silly on the identical time,” he confirms.
Kicker stresses that Germany’s elimination will not be “the fault of the left-back with the placing curls, however somewhat a very misinterpretation of a hand rule that has been too difficult in recent times” and says that “it’s a part of sport to rejoice victories and acknowledge defeats.”
“Anybody who behaves like this, who continually whistles at a participant who provides his all on the pitch for 90 minutes, has not understood honest play and is behaving in a means that’s unworthy of a bunch,” Kicker concluded, including that “it could be a gesture of sportsmanship if the ultimate viewers in Berlin have been conscious of this on Sunday and behaved in a impartial method in the direction of Cucurella.”
The NTV tv channel, for its half, concluded that “some followers of the ‘Mannschaft’ proved to be dangerous losers and likewise dangerous hosts” and that “it is mindless to whistle at Cucurella”.
An apology in Spanish
On this regard, it’s price highlighting the apology within the type of an open letter supplied by the newspaper Die Welt via its editor-in-chief, Ulf Poschardt, entitled ‘We’re sorry, expensive Spaniards’. The letter has been revealed completely in Spanish and in it he describes the whistles of the German followers as “bitter and resentful”, typical of “dangerous losers”, and recollects the “hospitality” of the Spanish in the direction of “the not notably cultured hordes of vacationers from Germany in Mallorca, Ibiza or Barcelona”. The letter reads as follows:
“On behalf of many Germans, I wish to apologise for the unsportsmanlike behaviour of some – too many! – followers yesterday within the semi-final towards Marc Cucurella. It was unsportsmanlike, it was unfair and it was additionally a somewhat easy switch of accountability. In fact it was a handball and naturally it ought to have been whistled.
Our disappointment is comprehensible after the unbelievable match and the great efficiency of the crew led by Ilkay Gündogan, Jamal Musiala and Niclas Füllkrug. However the whistles of the German followers don’t appear notably elegant, however somewhat bitter and resentful. We regarded like sore losers and that has no place in sport.
Some Germans could also be like that, however many people discover it shameful. And likewise ungrateful, as a result of the Spaniards, with their really outstanding hospitality, additionally welcome the not notably cultured hordes of vacationers from Germany to Mallorca, Ibiza or Barcelona. We see the current protests there as an indication that we, as vacationers, also needs to look out for the pursuits of the host nation. However that’s one other story.”
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