The Palestine soccer team will play a match against Euskadi on November 15 in San Mamés. The friendly has been agreed between the … Palestinian Football and Basque Federation, which has not had the territorial. The meeting would take advantage of the league calendar break by the World Cup 2026 classifying on that date and would have the approval of the central government.
This party will be the first of the Euskal Selekzioa with the new president of the Basque Federation, Iker Goñi. The previous Board of Directors of Javier Landeta tried to successfully set another FIFA date, between March 17 and 25, 2025, but did not set.
Euskadi would play a more and a half meeting again after his last appearance, in March 2024 against the Uruguay of Marcelo Bielsa. Then, he got a draw of Jagoba to a tie to one thanks to a goal from Djaló to 34,500 spectators in San Mamés. It was the return of the tricolor after an inactivity of almost four years.
In the absence of the official confirmation, the news of the celebration of this party, of high symbolic and political content, arrives only a few days after the end of the Tour of Spain, where the protests against the genocide that Israel is committing in the Gaza Strip have been a clamor, both in the Basque stages and in other days, which led to the cancellation of several finals, including that of the last day in Madrid.
The presence of the National Palestine Soccer Team in Bilbao to play a match against Euskadi, which has unsuccessfully requested its income as a full member of the UEFA and FIFA, would undoubtedly be held in a high -vindictive high voltage climate, since the indignation of Basque society against the crimes that Israel commits daily against the population of Gaza is at maximum levels.
Since the beginning of the conflict there have been different protests in the Euskadi football fields. In Anoeta they have been very visible, as in San Mamés, Mendizorrotza and El Sadar. On Tuesday, without going any further, Athletic’s fans deployed a banner that occupied all one of the funds with a message of support to Palestine, before the Champions League match against Arsenal.
Palestine is official selection
In sports, Euskadi would have the decline of the players called by other selections for the FIFA window matches. Palestine, on the other hand, does recognize the officiality and, in fact, in June it was about to achieve the feat of qualifying for the next year’s World Cup, which will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico. He was left out in the 97th minute of the last game, when Oman transformed a penalty more than doubtful that placed 1-1 on the scoreboard, when Palestine was only worth the victory. That last goal of Oman deprived him of playing the Asian play, step prior to the World Cup event.
The Palestinian national team plays in the exile of Jordan, with players who militate in foreign teams, as well as fled from the West Bank. In theory, the Palestine League is divided into first two divisions, the West Bank, uninterruptedly disputed since 2008, and that of the Gaza Strip, which since 1984 has only been able to conclude seven championships. Of the Gaza players it is known that numerous have died these months of Israeli attacks and the situation of many others is unknown. The Palestinians who play in the Israeli League, most of the BNEI Sakhnin, the only Arab team in the First Division of the Hebrew country, cannot concentrate with their selection.
The Basque Federation has not yet carried out the official confirmation of the celebration of a meeting that will have a political and claim to make visible the situation in Gaza. There is no information on ticket sales, but it can be assumed that a part of the box office will be allocated to humanitarian needs in the strip.
