In the same context, another Moroccan voice is being heard in La Liga: Omar El Hilali, Espanyol and Morocco international full-back, who has faced various forms of racism.<\/p>\n
During a match, the referee briefly stopped play after El Hilali reported racist abuse from Elche striker Rafa Mir, who allegedly mocked his immigrant roots. La Liga\u2019s anti-racism protocol was triggered and an investigation was opened.\n<\/p>\n
After the game, El Hilali told reporters he utterly condemns anti-Muslim chants in Spanish grounds, citing the Spain\u2013Egypt match as an example and stressing that no faith should be mocked in a stadium.<\/p>\n
He also highlighted that one of Spain\u2019s current stars, Lamine Yamal, is a Muslim of Moroccan heritage who chose to wear the red jersey of La Roja, and that the minimum he deserves is respect, not jeers at his faith.\n<\/p>\n
These testimonies\u2014from a dark-skinned Brazilian, a young Moroccan-born striker, and a Moroccan defender plying his trade in Catalonia\u2014paint a vivid picture that is hard to dismiss: Together, these incidents reveal persistent racism and hate speech in parts of Spanish football, tarnishing the sport\u2019s reputation as the country prepares to host the world\u2019s biggest tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the same context, another Moroccan voice is being heard in La Liga: Omar El Hilali, Espanyol and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[179,266,751,2266,2268,2265,2264,83,2267,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-3179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-atletico-madrid","9":"tag-bayern-munich","10":"tag-brazil","11":"tag-cape-verde","12":"tag-cd-colonia-moscardo","13":"tag-egypt","14":"tag-morocco","15":"tag-real-madrid","16":"tag-real-madrid-c","17":"tag-spain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}