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00:00So, to recap El Clasico, one of the world's most iconic games, Real Madrid beat Barcelona 2-1.

00:05Goals from Mbappe, Jude Bellingham, and Fermín López.

00:08But what the talk of the town is really about is what happened after the game,

00:12because Laminya Mall was the center of attention.

00:15Actually, because of things that he said before the game,

00:17where he spoke to a very popular streamer, Ibai, in Spain,

00:20and he explained how he thought that Real Madrid maybe cheats here and there.

00:23He said that, you know, he expected to win and score goals and this and that.

00:27And of course, that wasn't taken well by the Real Madrid players.

00:29At the end of the game, his national teammate, Dani Carvajal,

00:33who happens to be captain of Real Madrid, comes up to him,

00:36does a little bit of a hand motion towards him, and the media erupted from there.

00:40Yep.

00:40What do you guys think? How do you guys feel about it?

00:43Spanish media wasn't the kindest to him at times.

00:46Thoughts?

00:47Is El Clasico back?

00:48El Clasico is back, so I absolutely love to see it.

00:51I'm also a Real Madrid fan in Spanish myself,

00:53so I think this rivalry is actually good for Spain.

00:55If you think about Spain's peak era from 2008 to 2012,

00:59winning three straight major international competitions,

01:01two Euros in a World Cup,

01:03Sergio Ramos and Pique did not get along.

01:05Carlos Puyo and Iker Casillas did not get along.

01:07So I think it's actually good for the Spanish national team,

01:09and I think this is natural in the rivalry, to be honest.

01:13And honestly, what fans have been asking for,

01:14they've been asking for some spiciness in this rivalry.

01:17People complained in the Premier League that the Liverpool Man City era

01:20wasn't that intense between Klopp and Guardiola.

01:22So I think it's good for the sport,

01:23and I think it's good for the Spanish national team, honestly.

01:25So for me, my take is that the way that the Spanish media handled it,

01:30there were moments where it went too far.

01:32Had the rise of Moroccan soccer happened now,

01:35in conjunction with Laminia Mal's rise,

01:38I think it makes total sense for him to choose Morocco for moments like this.

01:42You think so?

01:42For reasons like this.

01:43Because the way that the media turns on players like him,

01:47I know that it hasn't been as bad as it can be in the past,

01:51and other players have experienced much worse,

01:53but this is the beginning, he's only 18.

01:54This is the first instance.

01:56And if this is level 1,

01:58imagine when it gets to level 10 or level 15.

02:00Yeah, no, I do think you bring up a really good point, though,

02:02about how, like, if Morocco was where they are now,

02:05it would have made the choice a lot more difficult.

02:07And I think people don't even realize

02:09the, like, proximity that he still has to his Moroccan roots.

02:12Like, his grandmother is Moroccan,

02:14his father is the Moroccan side of his family,

02:16he's also Ghanaian,

02:17he's been seen wearing, like, Moroccan...

02:19There's that famous video of him, like, celebrating...

02:21He's been seen wearing Moroccan flag

02:27and the Ghanaian flag on his boots at different times.

02:30And I do think that, like, the Moroccans still claim him a lot.

02:33I was also reading a quote from Yasin Bonu,

02:36the goalkeeper for the Moroccan national team currently,

02:39who said recently that,

02:40he said,

02:41So to have, like, the praise of a keeper of that quality,

02:59of a different national team,

03:00be like, yo, like, I still feel like he's one of ours,

03:03just speaks to, like, not only the openness of that country,

03:06but also just, like, the possibility of what could have been.

03:09To be fair with the Spanish media,

03:11he has been one of the most praised athletes

03:13Spain has ever had in general.

03:16And he did grow up

03:17playing with the Barcelona Youth Academy.

03:20And his entire footballing style,

03:23knowledge,

03:24mentorship, etc.

03:25is within FC Barcelona.

03:28So,

03:28and he reps his specific neighborhood of the 304,

03:31which is where he grew up in Spain.

03:34I think it is very hard sometimes

03:35to take away that piece of his identity

03:37to expect him

03:38because of one parent,

03:39not both, by the way,

03:40people like to forget that he has a mother from Equatorial Guinea,

03:43to automatically claim that country.

03:44I think it's a bit easier said than done

03:47from the ideas of kind of what we want to see

03:49than really what he experienced

03:52growing up in that footballing nation,

03:54playing that football with those people.

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