{"id":3778,"date":"2026-09-16T12:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:25:14","slug":"ceuta-shirt-controversy-who-backed-the-campaign-and-who-refused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=3778","title":{"rendered":"Ceuta shirt controversy: who backed the campaign and who refused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/kylian-mbappe-172496\">Kylian Mbapp\u00e9<\/a>, Vin\u00edcius Jr and <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/ibrahima-konate-200826\">Ibrahima Konat\u00e9<\/a> tied the Ceuta-support shirt around their waists rather than wear it before <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/real-madrid-26\">Real Madrid<\/a>\u2019s game at <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/elche-682\">Elche<\/a> on Tuesday night, intensifying a row over the campaign. Both clubs had agreed to display the shirt carrying the slogan &#8220;Todos somos caballas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Per El Peri\u00f3dico Mediterr\u00e1neo, the white shirt reading &#8220;Todos somos caballas. Ceuta y sus caballeros de la mar&#8221; is from an Asociaci\u00f3n Valenciana de Empresarios campaign, launched on 11 September 2026 to show solidarity with Ceuta after a late-July mass entry from Morocco.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/laliga-10\/fixtures\">LaLiga<\/a> allowed the initiative in matchdays five and six in the Valencian Community, covering Levante v Barcelona, Villarreal v Betis and Elche v Real Madrid. Madrid and Betis joined their hosts, while Barcelona declined and lined up in their kit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Against Inter Milan at the Bernab\u00e9u, the south stand unveiled a mosaic of Ceuta flags. Hours earlier, Madrid had issued a statement denying any ban on support for the Autonomous City and highlighted the shirts\u2019 pre-match use at Elche.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The club under Florentino P\u00e9rez has played down the incident and says players choose whether to wear such shirts. No Madrid player spoke or faced media after Elche, a habit repeated this season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Betis winger Abde started at Villarreal wearing the shirt and has since received online insults and threats. He said it was a gesture of solidarity, not politics, and stressed his commitment to Morocco. Brahim did not wear it as he was not in the starting XI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>\u201cArtificial intelligence was used to assist in creating this article based on reporting from the original source quoted.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/ceuta-shirt-controversy-who-backed-the-campaign-and-who-refused-43470419\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, Vin\u00edcius Jr and Ibrahima Konat\u00e9 tied the Ceuta-support shirt around their waists rather&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F434704193Fdate2026-09-16.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}