Controversy in Mendoza with the Sub 20 World Cup: FIFA “accidentally” covered up an image of the Malvinas Islands and managed to correct it

With the beginning of Sub 20 world in the stadium meannesslast Sunday, I suspect they wanted to clear the name of Argentine Falklands at the stage of meanness materialized in an IL image Stationery has asked for explanations and the restoration of national symbols while in the last hours the provincial government of Rodolfo Suarez required of AFA and the Fifa that the original decoration was restored, which ended up being done in the afternoon.

“They have already removed the billboard that mentioned the championship and covered the Malvinas Islands map. The inadvertent error by FIFA has been corrected. However, we emphasize that both the plaques on the pitch and the entrance to the Malvinas Argentinas museum have never been blankets” Suarez clarified.

In his message posted on social media, two people riding a crane are seen removing the FIFA billboard dedicated to the World Cup.

Timeline of the dispute

The first public complaint was made by Chirping the secretary of Malvinas, Antarctica and the South Atlantic and candidate for governor of Mendoza for Kirchnerism, Guillermo Carmona. “In the end it wasn’t a ‘bolazo’, as the governor said Rodolfo Suarez, the Malvinas Argentinas stadium during the Under 20 Youth World Cup. And not only did they cover our islands, but they also did it with the Argentine flag. #LasMalvinasSonArgentinas” he posted.

Specifically, the image of the Malvinas Islands was covered on one side of the stadium’s giant screen and the Argentine flag on the other. FIFA posters alluding to the competition have been placed on both sides.

“When we found out that this had happened, we made the decision to remove the posters, we are already communicating with FIFA and the AFA to resolve this,” Governor Suárez stressed in radio statements once the episode escalated into consideration of the company.

Suspicion of Carmona, a government official in Alberto Fernandez, that was the Fifa had ordered to cover the national flag and the coat of arms of the Malvinas on the electronic poster of the Malvinas Argentinas stadium in Mendoza because in the competition there are teams like Englandwhich do not recognize Argentine sovereignty over the islands.

The networks immediately replied to the controversies, with repudiation messages and requests for explanations also dedicated to the president of the AFA, Claudio Chiqui Tapia.

To add another seasoning to what happened, a press release appeared during the morning Stationerythrough the Secretariat of Malvinas, Antarctica and the South Atlantic, in which he requests explanations from the Mendoza government on the events that occurred in the Malvinas Argentinas stadium, asking for the return of the national symbols, which he ended up giving hours later.

“I am kind enough to address you in relation to press reports indicating that the symbol of the Malvinas Islands together with the Argentine flag, on both sides of the screen of one of the popular stands of the Malvinas Argentinas stadium, was covered, last May 21 , during one of the matches of the Under 20 World Cup”, reads the press release from the Farnesina.

And he added: “In relation to this, we ask to know if this fact corresponds to a commitment made by the Department of Sport and/or by some other provincial body. If so, I would like to convey the firm refusal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , International Trade and Religion As you know, the name of the reference stadium was decided in 1982 in honor of the fallen in the South Atlantic conflict. I also ask for the restoration of all the symbols referring to the Malvinas Islands that have been removed or made invisible.”.

The document clarifies that the name Argentine Falklands refers to a part of the national territory, “which is why it cannot be considered a political expression that could be inconvenient, especially in the case of football matches played in the Argentine Republic”.

“It should be borne in mind that the First Transitional Provision of the National Constitution states that ‘The Nation of Argentina ratifies its legitimate and imprescriptible sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwiches and the corresponding maritime and insular spaces’. In this context, a provincial decision that renounces an imprescriptible and inalienable objective of our Magna Carta is seriously questionable”, reads the document.

And he concludes: “Taking into account the above considerations, it would be serious if the representatives of the provincial government could accept the aforementioned conditions”.

The name of the stadium, the other controversy

In the government of Mendoza they have denied that the name of the stadium is being hidden. And both the province’s Undersecretary for Sport, Federico Chiapetta and the Minister of Tourism and Sport, Matías Lammens have ensured that the FIFA Cup stadiums are identified with the name of the city where the matches are played, but keep their original names.

“It is a poster that covers the map in the structure of the electronic poster, but the posters with the name of the stadium, Malvinas Argentinas, are everywhere, at the entrances and in various sectors,” the provincial government explained.