The footballers of the Athletic Club Nico Williams and Iñaki Williams They visited this Wednesday together The Revolt, David Broncano’s program on RTVE, and they took the opportunity to respond to Marc Cucurellawho left a fun ‘dart’ against the Basque club on his recent visit.
The Catalan player, Nico’s teammate in the Spanish team that won the Euro Cup, He joked a few weeks ago with Broncano about the birthplace of his children and took advantage of the moment to attack Athletic’s philosophy and its rule of only keeping Basque footballers in their ranks: “My son was born in Getafe, but I did it in the Basque Country to see if he could play for Athletic, it turned out badly. timings“, he said before releasing the phrase that would fuel the controversy.
“If they don’t find him a cousin, a grandmother… or things like that”joked the left back, who continued with the joke by pointing out that “maybe there is some rule” that says that the little boy could be an Athletic player in the future thanks to the fact that his parents conceived him in the Basque Country.
This Wednesday, during their visit to Broncano, the brothers were asked about that moment and gave an answer to the Catalan: “There were people stung, but it is known that it was a joke, those of us from Bilbao are born where we want, look at us,” he said jokingly. and conciliator Iñaki.
The youngest of the brothers, Nico, was ‘harder’: “This kid doesn’t respect anything, one day they’re going to catch him by the hair… When I saw him, I said: ‘this kid is stupid’because he knew that blows were going to rain down on him. “I knew it was a joke, but there are a lot of people who take it personally,” he concluded.
Thus, the Athletic players buried a controversy that remained a joke and, furthermore, They took the Catalan sticker album prepared by the program.