{"id":507,"date":"2014-01-09T13:02:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T13:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/?p=507"},"modified":"2014-01-09T13:02:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T13:02:40","slug":"tifo-2-catalonia-and-basque-country-reignite-call-for-independent-national-football-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/2014\/01\/09\/tifo-2-catalonia-and-basque-country-reignite-call-for-independent-national-football-identities\/","title":{"rendered":"TIFO 2: Catalonia and Basque Country reignite call for independent national football identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/spain\/10541466\/Catalonia-and-Basque-Country-reignite-call-for-independent-national-football-identities.html\">Here is the article I&#8217;ve found.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s really cool to look at the perspectives at play in this article. \u00a0The people of Catalu\u00f1a and the Basque country want these teams to represent and be the forefront for their nationalist movements, but at least the Catalan players continue the tradition of saying whatever the people want to hear. \u00a0Xavi&#8217;s quote is an example of this, how he says the likes to play for Catalu\u00f1a but ultimately would play for Spain, not Catalu\u00f1a. \u00a0This quote is classic, &#8220;The players do so carefully stressing their allegiance to Catalonia, while never publicly championing it ahead of their loyalty to a Spain they have all represented with distinction.&#8221; Why would these Catalan players try to change a system that they are extremely successful at? \u00a0The Catalans have always been known as &#8220;wheeler-dealers&#8221; and negotiators, so it&#8217;s really cool to watch this play out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the article I&#8217;ve found. I think it&#8217;s really cool to look at the perspectives at play in this article. \u00a0The people of Catalu\u00f1a and the Basque country want these teams to represent and be the forefront for their nationalist movements, but at least the Catalan players continue the tradition of saying whatever the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":713,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/713"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/sportshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}