2023-05-14 10:43:40
He use of catalan on the second day of the Queens League has generated sour noise on social media. In the match between Rayo de Barcelona and I’m sorrybroadcast this Saturday on Twitch, a referee reminds a player that she must use the castellano and not Catalan.
What has spread like wildfire on social networks is a scene in which a soccer player is on the ground after receiving a ticket from a rival and addresses the referee in Catalan: “Isn’t it a card? If it goes to my foot…”.
“Speak Spanish, speak Spanish” “Remember to speak Spanish.” That vol dir “SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF THE EMPIRE” version of Queens League football of such @3gerardpique. Exactly what Franco did with Barça from 1939. pic.twitter.com/kOLANf3ygg
— Santiago Espot (@santiagoespot) May 14, 2023
It is at that moment that the aforementioned collegiate reminds him that he has to “speak in Spanish”. Then, just a few seconds later, when the player has already gotten up, she is heard again from the collegiate, with great correctness, that she “remembers to speak in Spanish”.
My mother what just happened at the #QueensLeagueJ2!
A player speaks to the referee in Catalan and someone starts saying “Habla en castellano, habla en castellano” and then an “Acuerdate de hablar castellano”.@3gerardpique, @KosmosOfficial i @MediasetEspa very disgusting!! pic.twitter.com/B8EQqyZzO4
— Francisco Garrobo #VotaCUP (@fgarrobo) May 13, 2023
A situation that has aroused criticism on social networks. Twitter has been filled with comments in which it has been highlighted that what happened in the Cupra Arena is not the first time that it has happened in the invention of Gerard Piqué.
Criticism that Catalan is ignored in a product invented in Barcelona and by Piqué already began with the Kings League and its lightning growth, crowned with finals at the Camp Nou in which Spanish was the almost exclusive language of the event.
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Piqué has been exasperated in some interviews about this controversy, arguing that it is an entertainment format that has a huge prestige in Latin America and that is why it is logical that Spanish is the language of use.
My illusion lasted 1 second???????? #QueensLeague pic.twitter.com/IRYTkyAVZR
— Llet i Vi ???????? (@Aitormh22) May 6, 2023
On the first day, a player who was interviewed after a match was reminded that she had to express herself in Spanish after starting to answer in Catalan.
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