The match between Egypt and Spain was marred by an unfortunate incident in the stands<\/p>\n
Munir, the father of Spain international Lamine Yamal, commented on the regrettable chants heard during the friendly match between La Roja and Egypt, stressing the need to respect all religions.\n<\/p>\n
The match, which ended in a goalless draw between the two sides on Tuesday at the Espanyol stadium, saw Spanish fans chanting offensive slogans against Muslims, repeating on several occasions during the match: \u201cWhoever doesn\u2019t jump is a Muslim.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
All official Spanish bodies condemned this behaviour, including the Spanish Football Federation, the Ministry of Sport, and others.\n<\/p>\n
During a live broadcast on his Instagram account whilst cooking, Munir delivered a calm message following the events at the RCDE Stadium, saying, \u201cLong live Spain, long live Muslims, Christians and Jews, and long live everyone equally\u2026 what\u2019s your problem?\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Lamine Yamal\u2019s father concluded his remarks with a clear message: \u201cIf you show respect, you will be respected,\u201d in a reference that carries an explicit call for tolerance and coexistence.\n<\/p>\n
His son Lamine also expressed his stance via his Instagram account yesterday, Wednesday, saying: \u201cI am a Muslim, praise be to God. Yesterday, I heard chants in the stadium saying: \u2018Whoever doesn\u2019t jump is a Muslim\u2019. I know they were directed at the opposing team and not at me personally, but as a Muslim, that is considered disrespectful and unacceptable behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The match between Egypt and Spain was marred by an unfortunate incident in the stands Munir, the father…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5312],"tags":[321,2000,299,86329,140607,104,246358],"class_list":["post-867483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-egypt","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-friendlies","tag-l-yamal","tag-spain","tag-spain-vs-egypt"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116336139003181003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867483","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=867483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}