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How Spain’s Euro 2024 Win Is a Step Forward in the Country’s Fight for Inclusivity
Spain’s triumph in Sunday’s UEFA European Championship final was also a victory for a new generation led by its young Black stars.
An icon of Catalonia, FC Barcelona is, it maintains, “more than a club.” In Spain, where soccer often has larger political reverberations, it was hugely symbolic that the country secured the lead in its 2-1 victory over England at Sunday night’s Euro 2024 final. In the 47th minute, Lamine Yamal took the ball on the right, cut in-field ahead of England’s Luke Shaw and played a lovely weighted pass into the path of Nico Williams. Far-right party Vox has grown into the third biggest force in Spanish politics, winning 24 seats in 2019’s general elections, partly on its call for stricter immigration policies.
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