Several Athletic players and an EITB media journalist receive insults at Benito Villamarín
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Several Athletic playersamong them Maroan Sannadi and Óscar de Marcos and EITB Journalist Media Janire Fragua They received insults issued from the stands by a Betis E fann the course of the game of the 22nd day of LaLiga EA Sports of the 2024-25 season Betis-Atheticplayed at the stadium Benito Villamarínof Sevillethis Sunday night.
The insults took place, specifically, during the second part of the match, while some soccer players of the rojiblanco team that had not formed in the starting eleven performed heating exercises to, in case they decided, Ernesto Valverde could align them in replacement of others companions.
An Eitb Media camera was able to record the insults, which were issued from a stand near the band in which the Athletic players were. By the players, Maroan and Marcos They were subject to these, as well as the journalist Janire Fragua. In addition to the images collected by the camera, an audio recording, made through a mobile, also picked up the insults.
Janire Fragua herself has told, in EITB, how everything happened. The Athletic Captain Óscar de Marcos was receiving insults and threatsin which he was urged to look under his car, and, when surrounded by Maroan, Álvaro Daló and Adama Boirowhich were also in full warm -up in the band, the insults, now racist, began to arrive, with the Gasteiztarra striker, who has just signed by the Bilbao team, as a goal. Finally, seeing that The Eitb Media journalist She was attentive to what was happening, it was she who received insults. LaLiga is investigating the facts.
Athletic statement
The Athletic Club, through a publication on social network X, has branded what happened as “intolerable“And he stressed his position to maintain”Tolerance 0 against hatred and racism”
Intolerable.
He ¿¿¿¿above all.
Is it unacceptable that this kind of thing are heard. We denounce each insult.
Tolerance 0 in the face of hatred and racism. #Athleticclub Https://t.co/c622VZWPSK
– Athletic Club (@athleticclub) February 3, 2025
In response to the last seasons, it is not the first time that Athletic players are insulted in a LaLiga field, since, in last April, Nico Williams suffered insults at the Atlético Madrid stadium; In addition, just two weeks ago, The players of the Royal Society Mikel Oyarzabal, Ander Barrenetxea and Take Kubo were a victim of them in Mestalla, in Valencia.
Source: Eitb

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