Victory has a hundred fathers, or rather 47 million, even though 26 players fought on the field and won Spain’s fourth European Championship. This competition has offered fans – it was harder for the sports press to understand – the idea that political and social divisions can be overcome, not forgotten, in the service of a plural Spain, not a Spain that has to be like the one it always was, that is, the one from the past.
Since the left likes to use this concept a lot, and it is true that it can be a bit heavy-handed at times, the right gets hives just hearing it. They see it as an attempt to question the rock-solid unity of Spain, a crack through which the nationalists slip. The other nationalists. But in the end it is the only way to represent the whole real country, not the one that some imagine in their minds with their prejudices and resentments.
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