“L’Hospitalet is already ours“, thus he has celebrated with irony maroa 20-year-old neighbor of the Florida neighborhood, Morocco’s victory over Spain in the round of 16. Maro’s statement responded to a video and memes of a racist nature in which they stated that the country that won this afternoon “remains with L’Hospitalet& rdquor;.
In the same vein, it has been expressed Mohamed Anwaran 18-year-old also born in Florida, but of Moroccan origin: “are inexplicable moments. Now we are going to celebrate with respect because we are in Spain and, Even if they don’t love us, we are also Spanish“.
The statements by Maro and Anwar have come at the height of the Moroccan fans after qualifying, for the first time in their history, for World Cup quarterfinalsl of Qatar soccer. It’s been hours of nail-biting and despair with every chance Morocco missed and every ball Spain recovered. As the minutes passed, the 75 attendees of the Popular Restaurant of La Florida have been turning the place into a hive and the chants, shouts and beeps they have gone further as they saw that the miracle was possible.
With the penalty scored by achraf, the euphoria has moved to Avenida Catalunya in L’Hospitalet, where fans of the Moroccan team have jumped and chanted before move the party to Plaza Catalunya in Barcelona.
Duality Spain-Morocco
“My country is Morocco”, he asserted abide in his interview with Jordi Évole in February 2022. Despite being born and raised in Spain, the rapper from the La Florida neighborhood of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat insisted to the journalist that his roots “are from there& rdquor;. This vision of Morad is shared by many young people of Moroccan origin living in Spain who had come to this international ‘derby’ with their hearts divided between the two teams or that, directly, they had opted for the country of their elders, Morocco.
It is the case of Sofiane Benallal, of 18 years. Benallal lives in Sant Boi, but has gone to the Popular Restaurant because he knows the festive atmosphere that is generated when the national team plays. “I was born here, but Morocco is the country of my parents and the origin calls a lot. I feel more Moroccan than Spanish”, asserted Benallal, who also pointed out, amidst nervous tremors before the match began, that In the event that Morocco lost, it would have encouraged Spain.
The Moroccan team itself is made up of 14 players born in other countries, but whose roots are Moroccan. “I am proud of the players who were not born in Morocco, but who have preferred to play in the country of their mothers”, he remarked for his part. zubi19 years old and living in Spain since he was 3.
“They do not help us to be Spanish”
L’Hospitalet de Llobregat is, according to data from the Idescatthe municipality with the highest percentage of foreign population in the Barcelona metropolitan area and, as in Spain as a whole, those of Moroccan origin are the majority in the second city of Catalonia, with a total of 6,223 inhabitants in the municipality. Thus, District IV of L’Hospitalet, made up of the neighborhoods of La Florida and Les Planes, is the one with the highest percentage of foreign origin in the city, with 35.84%.
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“When Morad triumphs or someone like him does things well, they say that he is Spanishbut if someone messes it up then they are already Moroccan even if they were born here”, he explained network, a 20-year-old man born in Florida. “They do not help us to be Spanish. If they insult us they call us Moors. And that is why we are very close here, because although we were born here it is like being in a foreign country “, his friend Mohamed Anwar has sentenced on his part.
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