A Barça player refuses to answer a question in Spanish: "I don't understand you"

's Swiss winger of Croatian origin,

has starred in a moment of great discomfort this weekend by refusing to answer a reporter's questions in Spanish.

"I don't understand you in Spanish," joked the player, before the

journalist reformulated the question in Catalan.

Given the uproar, Crnogorcevic justified that he had forced the journalist to speak to him in Catalan because she is learning the language.

The footballer speaks six languages, including Spanish, but has been hiding behind the fact that she is learning Catalan.

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