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The day after the Europa League final between Sevilla FC and AS Rome in Budapest, Hungary, many foreign and French-speaking media reported the misadventure of 300 Sevilla supporters…
The day after the Europa League final between Sevilla FC and AS Roma in Budapest, Hungary, many foreign and French-speaking media reported the misfortune of 300 Sevilla supporters who missed the match after taking a flight to Bucharest, Romania, instead of Budapest.
“You should have been more attentive in geo lessons”, quips So Foot… Same joke from Ouest France: “That’s a lot of people not having listened in geography lessons!”
Why is this wrong?
The information taken up by all these media is based on a single source: a tweet from a Spanish football fan account. However, several factors cast doubt on its veracity.
No Spanish newspaper or local Andalusian media mentioned this story, which would not have gone unnoticed.
For its part, the Sevilla FC press service, contacted by Désintox, formally denies, assuring that “it is categorically false“
This fake news probably finds its source in a very real story. In 2012, 400 supporters of another Spanish club, Athletic Bilbao, missed the Europa League final by traveling to Budapest instead of Bucharest.
Before the FC Sevilla match, the sports newspaper El Desmarque even devoted an article to the episode, titled: “Athletic fans confused Budapest and Bucharest: the error of the 2012 final that the Sevillians must not commit”
One can imagine that this prompted a little joker to try to make believe that the same story had repeated itself eleven years later.
In any case, red card for the too gullible media who relayed.