The Spanish Football Federation has criticized the Athletic Club player Elijah Gift has faced discrimination during the Romania vs Spain match at the 19-year-old world championship held in Bucharest. “We strongly oppose any kind of racism in the game of football and we send all our support to Elijah”RFEF has communicated on social media.
According to RFEF sources, Eliya faced racist abuse and the enemy at the end of the game. For a Basque footballer it has been greatly affected and his team issued a statement in his defense: “All our support to our player Elijah Gift in the face of the discrimination he faced at the end of the match between Romania and Spain in the international tournament being played in Bucharest then- 19 team. Intolerance of racism“.
The match ended with one goal but no doubt The latter has taken a back seat after an unfortunate racist incident. A new demonstration that the world of football still has a lot of work to do to end this type of behavior once and for all.
