The selection of Saudi Arabia did not keep a minute of silence for the victims of London, lack of respect or cultural difference?
The image has gone around the world and has generated intense controversy in the networks.
At the start of a football match in Adelaide, Australia, between the national team and Saudi Arabia in the qualifiers to the 2018 World Cup, a minute's silence was kept by the victims of the recent terrorist attack in London, in which Australian citizens died.
So far everything is standard, since minutes of silence are kept very often before starting a football game. The odd thing is that only one of the teams, Australians, continued to stay in the middle of the field. The Saudis, with the exception of one player, kept heating as if nothing had happened.
The attitude of these opponents caused the booing by the present public.
According to the Spanish newspaper El Pais, the Australian Football Federation explained that they had agreed with the Asian Confederation and the leaders of the Saudi national team to celebrate the minute of silence. Subsequently, the spokespersons of the visiting team told them that they would not join the gesture of mourning because it is a practice foreign to their culture.
As a result, the Saudi sports authorities issued a statement apologizing "unreservedly for any offense".
"The players had no intention to disrespect the memory of the victims or displease the families, friends or any individual affected by this atrocity," stresses the text, which condemns without palliative "all acts of terrorism".
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