{"id":103265,"date":"2026-01-13T10:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/borja-iglesias-responds-with-irony-to-homophobic-insults-in-seville\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:27:21","slug":"borja-iglesias-responds-with-irony-to-homophobic-insults-in-seville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/borja-iglesias-responds-with-irony-to-homophobic-insults-in-seville\/","title":{"rendered":"Borja Iglesias responds with irony to homophobic insults in Seville"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Borja Iglesias Responds to Homophobic Insults with Sarcasm<\/h2>\n\n\nThe RC Celta de Vigo striker, Borja Iglesias, reacted with irony to the homophobic insults received after the match against Sevilla FC at the Ram\u00f3n S\u00e1nchez-Pizju\u00e1n stadium.\n\nThe Spanish player responded through his social media to a video where offensive shouts from the local fans could be heard.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>\u201cHow strange, this never happens in football,\u201d wrote the footballer.<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nIglesias&#8217; response was a clear allusion to the insults that included expressions such as &#8220;let&#8217;s see if you die&#8221; and derogatory comments related to his orientation or personal expression.\n\n\n<p>This is not the first time Borja Iglesias has denounced this type of situation.<\/p>\n\n\nLast April, after Celta&#8217;s defeat against FC Barcelona, the forward had already publicly exposed the amount of offensive and discriminatory messages he receives on social media.\n\nOn that occasion, Iglesias shared screenshots of comments with homophobic jokes and expressions of hate, lamenting that respect and tolerance continue to be pending subjects in football and society.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;We are still living in a society where respect is still far away,&#8221; he expressed.<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nBorja Iglesias has become one of the strongest voices in Spanish football in defense of diversity, respect, and inclusion, being a reference for many fans.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borja Iglesias Responds to Homophobic Insults with Sarcasm The RC Celta de Vigo striker, Borja Iglesias, reacted with irony to the homophobic insults received after the match against Sevilla FC at the Ram\u00f3n S\u00e1nchez-Pizju\u00e1n stadium. The Spanish player responded through his social media to a video where offensive shouts from the local fans could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[11382,2123,3632,2276],"class_list":{"0":"post-103265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-borja-iglesias","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-homophobia","11":"tag-insults"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}