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Lamine Yamal is no longer told "What does your ID say?"

Lamine Yamal is no longer told "What does your ID say?"

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Someone zoomed in a lot and left a couple of diopters to explain that Lamine Yamal, on his World Cup boots, wears small flags of Morocco (for his father) and Guinea (for his mother), but not that of Spain. It doesn't matter that the team's crest and flag appear everywhere: the essentialists do not forgive him this betrayal of the homeland. This is how Cristian Campos captures it in a column in El Español " titled " I don't care what Lamine Yamal's ID card says ". The author assures – without having asked the interested party – that if Morocco were a football power, the Barça player would then wear the Arab (and Amazigh) country's jersey. Yes, they are right to open the windows, because the Islamophobic stench is starting to be noticeable and it is not pleasant. Campos considers Ilia Topuria, born in Germany and of Georgian origin, more Spanish than the one from Rocafonda. That the fighter is a sympathizer of Vox is a contextual detail that perhaps helps to understand the peculiar reasoning of the article.“What does your ID card say?

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