The Gibraltar Soccer Affiliation introduced on Tuesday that will file a criticism with UEFA for the mantra “Gibraltar is Spanish” sung by the gamers of the Spanish nationwide staff in celebration after profitable the 2024 Euro Cup. The organisation has identified that on this sport “there isn’t any place for behaviour of this nature”.
The affiliation stated it had “taken word of the extraordinarily provocative and insulting nature of the celebrations surrounding the victory of the Spanish males’s staff at Euro 2024.”
“This morning, the Affiliation has been suggested to lodge a criticism with European soccer’s governing physique, UEFA, in relation to the unacceptable chants and songs, regarding Gibraltar, sung by the gamers of the Spanish Males’s Nationwide Staff after profitable” the competitors.
The Authorities of Gibraltar, for its half, has additionally expressed its “disappointment” with the chants, which it described as “stale feedback” by a number of the worldwide gamers. It’s “an pointless mixing of an amazing sporting success with discriminatory political statements,” it added.
Alternatively, the Spanish authorities’s spokesperson, Pilar Alegría, has downplayed the significance of the chants on Tuesday. In a press convention after the Council of Ministers, Alegría has requested that these demonstrations be positioned within the context wherein they have been held: “If the context is all the time vital, within the case of the chants that occurred yesterday, it’s much more so,” she stated.
In the meantime, the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez Almeida, stated that “the gamers didn’t say something that bizarre Spaniards don’t really feel.”
