Spain apologizes for ex-PM’s column questioning ‘Frenchness’ of France team

MADRID/PARIS: Spain has apologized for a column penned by conservative former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy contending that France’s men’s football team lacked French players, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Tuesday. Albares told his French counterpart that Rajoy’s “intolerable” remarks, which he said “carry the poison of racism and xenophobia,” did not reflect the view of the overwhelming majority of Spaniards.

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