Futbol ekitaldiaren eta nazio nortasunen arteko lotura Euskal Herrian

Abstract

Euskal nazio nortasuna eta futbol ekitaldia elkar hartuta joan dira 1920ko hamarkadaz geroztik, industria iraultza berantiarraren garai berberean gizarteratu ziren euskal nazionalismoak eta haren hurbileko prentsa idatziak berena egin zutenetik. Frankismoaren lau hamarkadatako lozorroan euskal sinboloen azken gotorleku izatetik XXI.mendeko aro eraberrituan euskal nazioaren ispilu konplexua izatera igaro da futbol ekitaldia. Estatu gabeziaren auziak, euskal abertzaletasunaren baitako zatiketek eta euskal nazioaren partaide sentitzeko askotariko hautemate moduek modu bateratuan euskal nazioa haragitzeko abagunea zaildu dute. Futbol ekitaldia, bide batez, euskal taldeen bereizitasunak eta euskal selekzioaren ezintasunek nabarmenduta, euskal nazio nortasun irmoaren konplexutasunaren isla da.

Basque identity and football have gone hand-in-hand since the birth of both the Basque nationalism movement and the pioneering press that favoured it, which were created at the same time as the arrival of the British sport during the late Industrial Age. Football was the bastion of the symbols of the Basque nation during the long-lived Francoist dictatorship in Spain, and nowadays it has become a reflection of the complexity of the Basque nation. The absence of a Basque State and the divisions within the Basque movement have made it difficult for the Basque Country to embody a notion of a nation. Football serves as a sign of the difficulty of bringing together the community, reflected in the distinctive policy of their own clubs and the impossibility of having an official Basque national team.