Ivana Andrés, the captain of the Spanish women’s national team, has apologized after the country’s football federation posted a now-deleted video on social media of four players appearing to mock New Zealand’s traditional haka.
The haka is a ceremonial Maori war dance, with many of the country’s national teams across a variety of sports performing their own version before matches. Ahead of the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, the Spanish players and the federation were accused of being disrespectful towards the dance and Maori culture.
” At the ceremony, Andrés gave the tribe a Spain jersey bearing the name Papaioea, the Maori name for the city of Palmerston North, where the ceremony was held. “This shirt symbolizes all the sacrifices and the victories that have made it possible today to have the privilege of being here to play the World Cup in this admirable land and to do it with the value of the friendship that we all share together today,” Andrés said.
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