European football association UEFA has suspended Spanish footballers Rodri and Álvaro Morata for one international match for singing a controversial song about Gibraltar.
The pair sang the song during the ceremony after winning the European Championship.
At the ceremony in Madrid the day after the final victory against England, the duo sang “Gibraltar is Spanish”. UEFA does not accept that. The association has therefore suspended the duo for the next international match of Spain, which will face Serbia in the Nations League on 5 September.
UEFA said Morata and Rodri breached “general rules of conduct” and “basic rules of decent behaviour” and used a sporting event for “non-sporting events”.
The battle cry was prompted by the defeat of England in the European Championship final in Berlin.
The British conquered Gibraltar on the Iberian Peninsula from Spain more than three hundred years ago.
Earlier, the Gibraltar Football Association filed a complaint with UEFA over the “extremely provocative and offensive texts during the festivities”.
