With three trophies, the Spanish Super Cup, La Liga and the Champions League, Real Madrid has just had one of its best seasons after a blank year. Performances that the club owes to a high-performance workforce and individuals in top form. Like Karim Benzema, a major architect of many Merengue victories in recent months. The Blues striker was also highlighted by the daily “Marca” this Monday, June 27, 2022, among other stars of Madrid training. But the title and the legends affixed have created controversy and a bad buzz on the Web. In question ? The African origins of footballers cited and stigmatized in a rather clumsy way.
On the front page of “Marca”, Spanish journalists stamped a big “Africa Power”, the faces of Karim Benzema (born in Lyon), Aurélien Tchouaméni (born in Rouen), Ferland Mendy (n” in Meulan-en-Yvelines ), David Alaba (born in Vienna) and Antonio Rüdiger (born in Germany), surrounding a map of Africa showing a savannah setting with other giraffes or camels. But you will have understood it well, none of these sportsmen play for an African country and none were even born in such latitudes.
But the Iberian newspaper ignores these details and puts forward what seems to be the “new roadmap” of Real Madrid. “They boast of having African roots although they grew up far from the continent. They reinforce a path that was opened with Eto’o, Geremi, Zidane, Makelele or Diarra“, adds the Spanish daily in caption. “Although Real’s great recruiting grounds are in Argentina or Brazil, lately the club has developed a path, opened many years ago, which is consolidating with players like Camavinga, Tchouaméni or Alaba. African blood is present in Madrid“, is it in particular written on this recovery in a viral way on the Web.
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