For 25 pesetas, tell us ways to mention Kosovo without mentioning Kosovo as, for example, Spain's rival.

One, two, three, answer again.


- The rival of Spain.


- The Kosovar team.


- The territory of Kosovo.


- The Kosovo Football Federation team.


- Kosovo


[


Ringing

of bells]

Ohhhhh!

Although, in reality, Kosovo is acceptable as long as the rest of the selections are written in capital letters.

In other words, SPAIN.

Or SPAIN, in some of the TVE graphics that are sent all over the world.

To show the overimpressed result he resorted to the following subterfuge: ESP 0-0 kos.

In other countries, like France, it read KOS.

At least the ridiculous was limited to the national territory.


What neither public television nor the Federation did at any time is to name Kosovo as an equal -except for Luis Enrique in the previous press conference, perhaps he escaped ...-, as they do with any other team.

Including those that do not represent states recognized by Spain either, such as the Faroe Islands -Danish archipelago- or the four of the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland).

Well, there is a fifth British team, Gibraltar, of which there are no precedents, since Spain resorts to a diplomatic veto to never face the Peñón team.

It is not something exclusive to our country, since there are four other vetoes in force in Europe: Ukraine with Russia, Azerbaijan with Armenia and Kosovo itself with Serbia and Bosnia.


In previous classification phases, the RFEF, at the request of the Government in power -of one color and the other-, also requested to veto the crossing with Kosovo, since Spain does not recognize its independence, but not on this occasion.

And since luck is always capricious, the pairing happened the first time.


Fearing contempt for its symbols, Kosovo even threatened not to appear for the party.

Finally, and in compliance with UEFA and FIFA regulations, its flag and anthem were present ... although in that way.

The Kosovo flag hung from the top of La Cartuja along with the Spanish and FIFA and UEFA, but, in television graphics, TVE projected the coat of arms of the Kosovar federation next to the flag of Spain.

At the time of the anthems, the aseptic "next we will hear the party anthems" was used over the loudspeaker instead of presenting each one separately as a "national anthem."

TVE, directly, neither announced them, nor the Kosovar - it rang first, as the protocol indicates - nor the Spanish.

One, two, three exceeded.

That way.


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