La Spain national team has started Euro Cup giving joy to the fans with the victories against Croatia (3-0) e Italia (1-0). However, controversial, racist, insulting and unpleasant episodes always appear. And even more so in the era of social networks. It all started from the front page of the newspaper BRAND from Thursday July 20thin which the footballers appeared Lamine Yamal y Nico Williams: “Of Ferraris against Italy”.
A user on X, formerly Twitter, sent the following message: “The Spanish National Team shirt should only be worn by Spaniards”. We do not know his concept of Spanish, but both Lamine Yamal as Nico Williams They are, obviously, full Spanish citizens and outstanding footballers, with a great commitment to the national team. Readers of this publication have described it as racist and the social network adds this unanimous decision as context to the publication.
Nico Williams’s zasca
Given this display of racism, Nico Williams He couldn’t avoid getting into the trap. And she has done it in a restrained, elegant and polite way. She hasn’t needed more. “Turn off the radio, ignorant”wrote the player, accompanying his text along with the emoticon of a yawn. His message has received 20,000 likes and has been retweeted thousands of times. “How great you are, Nico” o “We are all with you” These are some samples of the multitude of messages of support that the player has received.
The user who questioned the Spanish nationality of Nico Williams y Lamine Yamal has received a multitude of criticisms. There are many who call him racist, fascist and untrue with his statements. “There are one percent of fools everywhere, for each one there are hundreds and thousands of Spaniards to point them out,” can be read in a comment.
Spanish footballer Nico Williams.
It is not the first racist episode
Unfortunately, this is not the first time that Spanish football has experienced this type of episode. The Williams brothers They have had to face insults and racist chants from some specific fans in different stadiums, such as the Metropolitanlast April 27, or Cornellà-El Pratin January 2020.
