Lamine Yamal is no longer told "What does your ID say?"

Someone zoomed in a lot and left a couple of diopters to explain that Lamine Yamal, on his World Cup boots, wears small flags of Morocco (for his father) and Guinea (for his mother), but not that of Spain. It doesn't matter that the team's crest and flag appear everywhere: the essentialists do not forgive him this betrayal of the homeland. This is how Cristian Campos captures it in a column in El Español" titled "I don't care what Lamine Yamal's ID card says". The author assures – without having asked the interested party – that if Morocco were a football power, the Barça player would then wear the Arab (and Amazigh) country's jersey. Yes, they are right to open the windows, because the Islamophobic stench is starting to be noticeable and it is not pleasant. Campos considers Ilia Topuria, born in Germany and of Georgian origin, more Spanish than the one from Rocafonda. That the fighter is a sympathizer of Vox is a contextual detail that perhaps helps to understand the peculiar reasoning of the article.“What does your ID card say?

” is a phrase from the most carpetovetonian Spanish nationalism that has often been used against Catalans who did not feel particularly called by the Spanish project, despite being its subjects by chance – and the murky azure – of birth. Now it turns out that the doctrine was wrong and that to be considered a good Spaniard one must tattoo the rojigualda" wherever possible. After trying to identify Catalanism and supremacism – despite the Pujolian maxim of "who lives and works in Catalonia" – now from El Español" they are starting to hand out Spanish identity cards. That flag, damn it. Let it be seen. In other competitions, by the way, the Barça player wears three flags on his boots: the Moroccan, the Guinean, and the Spanish one. But it was about going straight for the ankle. Also for being Catalan.