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On 10 July 2010, hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Barcelona behind the slogan ‘We are a nation’. The demonstration was supported by all Catalan parties, with the exception of the conservative People’s Party and the anti-Catalanist Ciutadans, and was reported as the biggest in the history of Catalonia.2 The protest was conceived as a response to the Spanish Constitutional Court, which had published a review of the region’s revised statute of autonomy denying Catalonia was a nation in its own right. The day after the demonstration, Spain won the Football World Cup for the first time. Thousands of Catalans celebrated the triumphs of the selecciόn in Barcelona. The streets of the Catalan capital were taken by a tide of young supporters in red T-shirts waving Spanish constitutional flags and proudly chanting ‘I am Spanish, Spanish, Spanish’.3
‘Catalonia is dying. They are killing her and we have to react’
(Joan Laporta, President of FC Barcelona)1
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Quiroga, A. (2013). Football and Identities in Catalonia. In: Football and National Identities in Spain. Global Culture and Sport. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137315502_7
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