Outrage as five-year-old football fan is forced to remove shirt before match

There has been outrage and condemnation successful Spain aft a five-year-old lad was forced to instrumentality disconnected his beloved club’s garment earlier attending Espanyol’s La Liga clash with Girona astatine the weekend.

Hosts Girona ran retired comfy 4-1 winners implicit Espanyol connected Saturday, the side’s 3rd league triumph connected the bounce, to emergence to seventh successful the Spanish apical flight.

But a viral video filmed earlier kick-off, which shows a young protagonist being made to instrumentality disconnected his Espanyol jersey by information staff, has somewhat overshadowed Girona’s win.

According to the boy’s father, the kid had been told helium would not beryllium capable to participate the stadium unless the blue-and-white-striped kit was removed, amid fears of instrumentality unit astatine Girona’s Estadi Montilivi.

‘The baby has had to instrumentality disconnected his Espanyol shirt because they accidental helium can’t spell successful with it. A five-year-old child,’the young supporter’s dada tin beryllium heard saying successful the footage.

‘Terribly dangerous, they could each dice due to the fact that the babe is wearing an Espanyol shirt. 

‘In my f***ing life, would you motion for Girona? Never.’

Later successful the clip, the information defender apologised and indicated that helium had nary prime successful the matter.

‘I consciousness precise bad… I consciousness precise bad, sir,’ helium tells the boy’s enraged dad.

It appears the household were yet granted entree to the ground, with the lad pictured successful a achromatic sweatshirt and bluish overgarment towards the extremity of the video.

LaSexta study that section constabulary had declared the lucifer ‘high risk’ and information unit were truthful capable to forestall individuals from wearing definite covering successful parts of the stadium for information reasons.

According to the Spanish TV channel, the five-year-old was not the lone protagonist forced to fell their team’s colours, with different Espanyol instrumentality forced to instrumentality disconnected their scarf earlier entering the stands.

It’s claimed the instrumentality was told, successful nary uncertain terms, that helium was not allowed to instrumentality the scarf wrong the stadium ‘even if helium hid it’ and it should alternatively beryllium ‘thrown away’.

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