Winning a match or winning a tournament has one thing in common: joy. When you're happy , you have to celebrate and show emotional excitement. Each person has their own way of expressing themselves, no one prohibits them, as long as they don't go beyond the limit. However, there are still many players who have become too happy in the fun, so that an action, a word, becomes an unnecessary incident.
The nature of the incident can sometimes become serious, affecting not only the individual player but also teammates, opponents, even national-level politics or even discrimination. race.
Midfielder Enzo Fernandez and some teammates on the Argentina team, while celebrating the 2024 Copa America championship, sang a song that was offensive to French players. There was an immediate reaction from Europe, when Enzo's French teammates unfollowed him on Instagram, and the French Football Federation sued Argentina to FIFA.
And yet, while celebrating the EURO 2024 championship with the Spanish Team, Rodri - the best player of the tournament, always seen in a calm mood, had the slogan "Gibraltar is Spain's". . This message immediately received a strong reaction from Gibraltar and they complained to UEFA.
FIFA, UEFA and other football organizations always emphasize that "football has nothing to do with politics" and have campaigns against racism, but in the last EURO, players from Albania and The country's football federation also made inappropriate statements and messages about hostility towards Serbia...
There will be an investigation and a verdict, even if apologies are made. Apologizing doesn't solve much, when words - especially offensive and racist words - will leave wounds in the hearts of those who have to endure them.
Just have fun, don't be too happy, that's a lesson for not only the names mentioned above but for everyone, including Vietnamese players.
