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Roberto Casillas

La Liga Chief Javier Tebas Faces Potential Punishment for Real Madrid Nazi Comparison

Spain’s National Sports Council (CSD) has elevated a complaint against La Liga president Javier Tebas after he compared Real Madrid’s communication techniques to the ones employed by Nazi Germany.

Real Madrid called for Tebas’s immediate resignation after he took to social media to equate the club and their in-house TV channel’s “propaganda techniques” to the ones employed by Nazi minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels. Instead of backtracking and issuing an apology, Tebas double-downed on his comments days later.

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