UEFA have punished Spain internationals Álvaro Morata and Rodri with a one-match ban for singing a few sovereignty declare on Gibraltar on the crew’s European Championship title celebration.
The Gibraltar soccer federation had filed a grievance to UEFA after Morata, who captained Spain to Euro 2024 glory in Germany, and Rodri led hundreds of followers singing “Gibraltar is Spanish” at a celebration in Madrid on July 14.
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UEFA’s disciplinary physique banned each gamers for “failing to adjust to the final ideas of conduct, for violating the fundamental guidelines of respectable conduct, for utilizing sporting occasions for manifestations of a non-sporting nature and for bringing the game of soccer, and UEFA particularly, into disrepute.”
Each gamers will miss Spain’s UEFA Nations League group opener at Serbia on Sept. 5.
Gibraltar is situated on the southern tip of Spain and has been a British abroad territory for greater than 300 years.