The Royal Order of Sports Merit is the highest distinction that can be awarded to an athlete in Spain. Every year, the Higher Sports Council is responsible for granting these distinctions to athletes and organizations for their contributions to sports in the country, whether for their successes on grass, tartan or asphalt or even in offices, promoting practice and good customs. . However, on this occasion a blunder has occurred.
The CSD has announced this morning the awarding of the Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit to the Spanish women's team, in commemoration of their triumph in the World Cup held in Australia and New Zealand this summer. The government has published through the BOE the complete list of people who have received the medal, the 23 summoned for the tournament and the technical team. Unfortunately, the list contains a high-profile typo.
In the place where the name of Ivana Andrés Sanz, captain of the national team and Real Madrid player, should be, was that of the Argentine Ivana Icardi Romero, a relatively well-known figure in Spanish society. She is the sister of Mauro Icardi, a former Inter Milan soccer player who currently plays for Turkish Galatasaray; who works as a model, influencer on social networks and was a contestant on Survivors on Telecinco during its 2020 edition.
The gazapo has flooded the networks in a matter of hours and there have been many users who have spoken about it. “They had to write one thing well and they do it badly. If they didn't want to demonstrate their absolute ignorance of women's football, they did it with their ass. What is the captain, man, THE CAPTAIN” commented a user in X. A multitude of communicators and well-known figures have reacted to the error, in very different ways.
"Congratulations to the Ministry of Culture and Sports for demonstrating its ignorance of the women's team by granting admission to the Royal Order of Sports Merit to a certain Ivana Icardi Rivero and not granting it to Ivana Andrés Sanz, the captain of the Spanish team," it said. journalist Cecilia de la Serna. "I want to congratulate from this humble account Ivana Icardi Rivero, sister of soccer player Mauro Icardi, for her admission to the Royal Order of Sports Merit," added the writer Andrea Menéndez Faya.
“The BOE has just awarded the gold medal to the players of the team that won the World Cup. Well, instead of Ivana Andrés, the captain, they are going to give the medal to... Ivana Icardi Rivero. Ivana Icardi Rivero is Mauro Icardi's SISTER. "I'm crying," reacted the Bilbao journalist Luis Calabor. The Higher Sports Council has not yet ruled on this typographical error.
