VilaWeb.cat
Català per a estrangers (Step 1)
mininu | Articles salats | dimarts, 7 d'agost de 2012 | 03:42h

Que el món ho sàpiga:


He is not Usain Bolt neither carry any Olympic medal. But the name of Àlex Fàbregas is now trending topic  in Catalonia and Spain and will be one of the big names of London 2012.

Àlex Fàbregas is a Catalan player of the Spanish hockey team in the Olympics, a silver medalist four years ago. In fact most of his team mates are Catalans. But he voiced something everyone think but no so much people say: ‘I’m Catalans and I’m playing for Spain just because I have no other option’. He wrote that in a tweet and suddenly got insults and even threats from Spanish fans. Fàbregas then decided to shut down the twitter account but then the reaction surged from Catalan fans. #TotsSomÀlexFàbregas (We All Are Àlex Fàbregas) became in few hours trending topic in twitter.

More and more Catalans are worried of how Spaniards are showing strong anti-Catalan feelings using social networks and also forums on Spanish newspapers. Some regard the messages as racists because of the strong wording Spaniards uses against Catalans.

Spain performance in the London Games is the worst in decades and the winners of the only three medals are one Catalan woman, Mireia Belmonte, and one basque girl. Belmonte was asked some time ago in a magazine about the chance of a Catalan delegation at the Games and she show her support: ‘It will be good to compete with Spain in the swimming pool’ she said.

Catalan athletes take part in the games as members of the Andorran, French or Spanish teams. In the case of Spain they cannot refuse joining the team.

(VilaWeb.cat, 6.8.2012)



[Il·lustració de l'entradeta: JAP, a ElPuntAvui, 86.8.12]

Versió per imprimir (format PDF)
Afegir-hi un comentari

Accés de l'autor

Nom d'usuari
Clau
Recorda'm

Categories

Últims 40 canvis

Arxiu

« Maig 2013 »
dl dt dc dj dv ds dg
  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
RSS 2.0 RSS Comentaris