{"id":573452,"date":"2025-11-16T05:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T05:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/573452\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T05:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T05:07:11","slug":"palestinian-team-plays-friendly-in-spain-in-front-of-50000-spectators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/573452\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian team plays friendly in Spain in front of 50,000 spectators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A selection of Palestinian footballers took on a group of Spanish players from the Basque Country on Saturday in a friendly match with political overtones relating to Israel\u2019s military actions in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers said some 50,000 spectators had tickets for the match at San Mames Stadium, the home of Athletic Bilbao.<\/p>\n<p>Many fans waved Palestinian flags and those of the northern Basque Country region. Several thousand people also marched with flags before the game.<\/p>\n<p>Spain has seen major protests against Israel\u2019s military response to the October 2023 Hamas attack.<\/p>\n<p>Bilbao was the site of the first of a series of large protests against an Israeli-owned cycling team at the Spanish Vuelta in September.<\/p>\n<p>The Basque team included players from Athletic and Real Sociedad, along with other professional sides. None of Spain\u2019s footballers were available because they were playing a World Cup qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian team will also take on a selection of players from Spain\u2019s northeastern Catalonia region in Barcelona on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Nov 16, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A selection of Palestinian footballers took on a group of Spanish players from the Basque Country on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,181880,181875,181879,181876,181877,104,181878],"class_list":{"0":"post-573452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-palestine-football-news","11":"tag-palestine-football-team","12":"tag-palestine-israel-genocide","13":"tag-palestine-vs-spain","14":"tag-palestine-vs-spain-friendly","15":"tag-spain","16":"tag-spain-israel-protests"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115557645900014390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}