Gonzalo Miró is a renowned sports journalist, as well as a well-known Atlético de Madrid fan, who often speaks out on controversial issues in Spanish football. The renowned journalist spoke out yesterday on a controversy involving Diario Marca and Atlético de Madrid, specifically one of its brand new summer signings. Miró was blunt on the subject and admitted, like all the red-and-white fans, that what happened yesterday was, to say the least, embarrassing.
On this occasion, Atlético de Madrid fans have attacked the newspaper for an unfortunate headline that has not gone down well with the red-and-white faithful. This has not been the first time that the Atlético fans have shown their disagreement and frustration with the newspaper for its mainly Madrid- friendly bias. Fed up with this kind of "neutrality" , the headline of yesterday's digital edition early in the afternoon was the straw that broke the camel's back for the red-and-white fans.
The controversy that Miró and the Atlético de Madrid fans spoke about
As everyone knows, Julián Alvarez became a new Atlético de Madrid player yesterday for the next six seasons in a historic operation for the club. The Argentine is the red-and-white bombshell par excellence, this being a historic transfer for the club and generating enormous excitement among its fans. However, Diario Marca wrote an embarrassing headline yesterday to attract more attention and overshadow the official nature of Alvarez 's transfer.
The controversy was based on a news item in which the editors invented a ridiculous offer for Vinícius Jr so that it would be more talked about than the signing of Julián . The Argentine, who was official , was relegated to the background behind Vinícius , once again exalting Real Madrid as one of its most important players. The Atlético fans, fed up with so much fanaticism in a newspaper of that magnitude, were quick to express their disagreement and attack the newspaper.
Outrage among Atletico fans
Considered disrespectful, Marca 's gesture yesterday with the signing of Julián was at the very least grotesque and disrespectful. The signing is transcendental in the Atlético market and it is incredible that it is not given the importance it deserves, but even more so that false information is used to overshadow it. Upon learning of this embarrassing event, Atlético de Madrid fans were quick to attack Marca on Twitter expressing their indignation.
Nothing new
And the fact is that yesterday's fictitious information is not the first controversy of the newspaper, nor the last, given that they have been following this policy for years, in line with RealMadrid . Their merengue tendency is an open secret and that is why the rest of the fans in our country, regular readers, have more than accepted the situation. Even so, from time to time some limits are exceeded in which political correctness is not applied and nonsense appears like that of yesterday afternoon.