The first day of the new Champions for him FC Barcelona brings with it a new controversy for the Barça team. Even before the ball rolls. Hansi Film He appeared in the press room and did not answer questions posed by the media in Spanish.
The Catalan team requested the UEFA that the appearance would only have the translation from English, French and Catalan. This is what the club itself communicated to the journalists present at Mr.eitherPopcorn. “The club told us that the journalist who asked a question in Spanish, the same one who asked it, had to then translate his own question into English,” explains Manolo Oliveros, a journalist at COPE.
At the press conference, nine of the eleven questions were asked in Catalan. The controversy comes in a year when UEFA has introduced more technology into its press conferences. The classic figure of the translator sitting next to the coaches no longer exists. It has been replaced by an app that each journalist must download and listen to the translation with their own headphones.
“However, if you ask in Catalan, no. UEFA will translate it… Of the 11 questions, 9 were in Catalan and 2 in English. The colleague of ESPN Jordi Blanco He started asking in Spanish and switched to Catalan… I don’t understand,” Oliveros said.
Juanma Castaño, host of the COPE program, considered that “if it is a semi-political story with a project to isolate the Spanish, it opens the doors to the field. A Spanish journalist has the right to do his job with Spanish teams. in the language in which it is spoken in Spain, I do not understand why we support this, I do not understand why they want to isolate the Spanish in a press conference… What absurdity at this point,” he insisted.
