Mbappé Speaks Out on Ceuta Shirt Controversy
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Kylian Mbappé is a football player for Real Madrid. He talked to the newspaper AS about some football shirts. The shirts are for Ceuta, a city in Spain. Business people made the shirts. They wanted to help Ceuta and bring people together.
Mbappé said he cares about Ceuta. He said, 'I have all the solidarity with Ceuta.' But he also said something else. He did not want to put suffering first. Some people did not like this.
There was a big controversy about the shirts. People talked about it a lot online and in football. The shirts also connect to owners of football teams in Valencia.
Florentino Pérez is the president of Real Madrid. He will travel to Ceuta soon. He wants to talk about the shirt problem in person.
Vocabulary15 words
- solidarity
- helping and supporting other people
- controversy
- a big disagreement about something
- impulsado
- started or pushed forward by someone
- empresarios
- business people
- lazos
- close connections between people
- president
- the top leader of a company or club
- césped
- the grass field for football
- priorizar
- to make one thing more important than others
- sufrimiento
- pain or hard feelings
- camiseta
- a shirt, often for sports
- dueños
- the people who own something
- equipo
- a group of players who play sports together
- polémica
- a public argument about something
- unir
- to bring people together
- redes
- social media, like online networks
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1. Kylian Mbappé 2. Business people 3. Yes
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Kylian Mbappé is a football player for _____. He talked to the newspaper AS about some football _____. The shirts are for _____, a city in Spain.
Mbappé said he cares about Ceuta. He said, 'I have all the _____ with Ceuta.' But he also said something else. He did not want to put _____ first.
There was a big _____ about the shirts. People talked about it a lot online and in football. The shirts also connect to owners of football teams in _____.
_____ is the president of Real Madrid. He will _____ to Ceuta soon.
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