US EditionPalestinian Footballers Play Friendly in Spain's Bilbao in Front of 50,000 Spectators
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Associated Press BILBAO, Spain (AP) — A selection of Palestinian footballers faced a group of Spanish players from the Basque Country on Saturday in a friendly match with political dyes related to Israel’s military actions in Gaza. Organizers claimed that some 50,000 spectators had tickets to the match at the San Mamés Stadium, home to the Athletic of Bilbao. Many fans waved Palestinian flags and flags from the Basque Country region. Several tho…
“Football is a platform to tell our story, a reason to smile,” said Ehab Adu Jazar, a selector from Palestine, in an interview in EL PAÍS. Now the Palestinian people have one more reason to show a small smile within the inhuman situation in which they are facing the massacre they are suffering from on the part of Israel. San Mamés lived a historic night in which football became a great gesture of solidarity. Up to 51,396 people filled the stadiu…
Smoke smell and firecracker noise. A tarp calling the Intifada, with a footballer dressed with a Palestinian handkerchief on his head, armed with a machine gun behind his back and hitting the head of Israel Netanyahu as if it were a football parade through the center of Bilbao. It is the march towards the match between Euskadi and Palestine called by the platform Palestinerekin Elkartasuna, supported by Gazte Koordinadora Sozialista (GKS) and Ja…
"Spanish in which I don't boat, uh, uh, uh," almost 53,000 spectators gathered in San Mamés in the first minute of the friendly match between...
"The party that is being played today is the party of the end of the genocide. We are seeing that Basque society is committed to playing it and above all today Palestine will win," they explain after two massive demonstrations in the center of Bilbao before entering San Mamés
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