"Yeah fine, we can think about that, it’s not our business. But be careful.
“The next one will be ours. The next four, five years old kids will be ours. Sorry that I see my kids, Maria, Màrius and Valentina when I see every morning, since the nightmare started, the infants in Gaza. And I’m so scared.”
The Catalonian-native finished by recounting a fable about a bird attempting to put out a forest fire, concluding: “The bird knows it doesn’t stop the fire, but it refused to do nothing.
"In a world that often tells us we are too small to make a difference, that story reminds me the power of one is not about the scale, it’s about choice. About showing up. About refusing to be silent or still when it matters most.”
Although he hasn’t previously spoken publicly about the Israel-Hamas war, this is far from the first time that the Spaniard has shared political views.
In 2018 he was fined £20,000 by the Football Association after he ignored previous warnings and breached their kit and advertising regulations by wearing a yellow ribbon pitchside in solidarity with imprisoned Catalonian politicians.
