{"id":56716,"date":"2024-08-06T06:59:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T04:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=56716"},"modified":"2025-08-06T00:19:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T22:19:41","slug":"morocco-has-a-serious-problem-and-must-remain-in-the-country-that-caused-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/08\/06\/morocco-has-a-serious-problem-and-must-remain-in-the-country-that-caused-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco has a serious problem and must remain in the country that caused it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a sports fan, but there are things about sports that I really like, starting with sportsmanship.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/03\/pedro-sanchez-morocco-and-islamism-a-relationship-that-endangers-spain-and-the-eu\/\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez, Morocco and Islamism: a relationship that endangers Spain and the EU<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/30\/pedro-sanchez-knew-that-spain-was-buying-russian-oil-from-morocco-and-was-silent\/\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez knew that Spain was buying Russian oil from Morocco and was silent<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>These days I've been watching some of the events at the Paris Olympics out of curiosity and also because it <strong>comforts me to see the way athletes from different countries treat each other with honor and cordiality<\/strong>, especially in moments like defeat or injury. Yesterday we saw a nice example of this: after winning a silver medal in badminton, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/paugasol\/status\/1820431954069573912\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese athlete He Bing Jiao paid a small tribute to Spaniard Carolina Mart\u00edn<\/a>, her rival the day before, by showing a small Spanish flag in honor of the injured athlete.<\/p>\n<p>Although I am not an athlete, <strong>this is what I admire most about sport: its ability to unite people from very different nations and cultures<\/strong> under the same sense of respect and healthy rivalry. And that is why I do not particularly like certain sports, such as <strong>football<\/strong>, since in them <strong>rivalry tends to get out of hand<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we saw <strong>several regrettable examples of a complete lack of education and \"Olympic spirit\"<\/strong> at the football match between Spain and Morocco in Paris. The first of these examples was <strong>the whistling of thousands of Moroccan fans to the Spanish National Anthem<\/strong>, which we can hear in this video:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"665\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">CASI 50.000 AFICIONADOS MARROQU\u00cdES CONTRA EL HIMNO ESPA\u00d1OL: LA ATRONADORA PITADA EN EL V\u00c9LODROME <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ihHuwV9P3Y\">pic.twitter.com\/ihHuwV9P3Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patricia Rodr\u00edguez (@patriciardguezc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/patriciardguezc\/status\/1820525601536753878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Moroccan fans cannot claim that the booing is due to a traditional rivalry between the two neighbouring nations: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ole.com.ar\/usa\/juegos-olimpicos\/juegos-olimpicos-jjoo-argentina-marruecos-silbido-himno-video_0_UQs5fyocZF.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A few days ago, Moroccan fans did the same thing with the Argentine anthem<\/a>, a country with which Morocco has never had any problems (as far as I know). Honestly, <strong>I would be embarrassed to hear thousands of Spaniards doing this with the anthem of another country<\/strong>, even with those with whom we have been separated by a historic enmity. <strong>It is in these moments that the education of a people is demonstrated<\/strong>, and yesterday Morocco's was left in the mud.<\/p>\n<p>As if the bad behaviour of their fans wasn't enough, yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/juegos-olimpicos\/futbol\/2024\/08\/05\/66b105cbe2704e10be8b45be.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Moroccan national team players celebrated their first goal by mocking the Spanish goalkeeper<\/a>. <strong>This lack of education is regrettable in the stands, but it is intolerable on the pitch<\/strong>, especially at the Olympic Games, which are not just a competition, but also an expression of sport's ability to bring together very different people.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days I have seen other competitions in which the noble attitude between rivals served to honour their respective countries. <strong>Yesterday the Moroccan players and fans gave a pitiful image of their country<\/strong>, an image that many Spaniards know, unfortunately, due to the bad behaviour of many of Mohamed VI's subjects in our country. <strong>To top it all off, the Spanish team ended up winning the match<\/strong>, and the stupid provocations of the Moroccans ended up forming a bitter cocktail with the feeling that defeat leaves among those who show such a lack of sportsmanship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yesterday was a shameful spectacle that makes you thankful you were not born in Morocco,<\/strong> a country that does not care about giving such a bad image abroad. <strong>If these are the values \u200b\u200bthat they teach their young people in that country, they certainly have a problem.<\/strong> But it is their problem. It is only fair that this kind of problem stays in the countries that cause them. <strong>Please do not bring these anti-values \u200b\u200bto Spain, given that you dislike our country so much.<\/strong> Stay in your country and dedicate yourselves to displaying your lack of education among yourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a sports fan, but there are things about sports that I really like, starting with sportsmanship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10373],"tags":[22383,12305,22342,22384],"class_list":["post-56716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-world","tag-he-bing-jiao","tag-morocco","tag-paris-2024-olympic-games","tag-spanish-national-football-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}