Overview
- Television footage from Tuesday showed Kylian Mbappé and Vinícius Júnior roll their pre-match
- Todos somos caballas
- shirts up so the slogan was unreadable and later remove them while Ibrahima Konaté held his shirt in his hands.
- Real Madrid said it respects differing opinions and gave each player the freedom to decide whether to wear the solidarity shirt.
- LaLiga president Javier Tebas publicly criticised the trio, arguing the organised gesture was an institutional act that players should not treat as a personal choice.
- Mbappé later told Spanish media he folded the shirt to also honour migrants who died in the late-July Ceuta crossings and to send a 'message of peace', while reiterating support for Ceuta's victims.
- The shirts were distributed by a Valencian business association with LaLiga approval and the dispute has fed wider tensions over the July mass crossings into Ceuta, created a strong public reaction from the city's Real Madrid fans and left the issue framed as a reputational and political flashpoint rather than a formal disciplinary matter.