After the World Cup, the Wales football team will contemplate changing its name to Cymru on the international scene.Information Guide Nigeria
Cymru, the Welsh term for Wales, is already employed by the Football Association of Wales in both internal and external communications. However, the football team is known as Wales by fans from outside the country, and this has been the case since they began competing in 1876.
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to CanadaAccording to PA, the FAW aims to discuss the merits of altering the country’s name in international competition from Wales to Cymru with a variety of Welsh football stakeholders. Given that it is known as Cymru in Wales, Noel Mooney, chief executive officer, has argued why the name should be changed.
“The team should always be called Cymru, that’s what we call it here,” said Mooney ahead of Wales’ first World Cup since 1958.
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“Our view at the moment is that domestically we’re clearly called Cymru. That’s what we call our national teams. If you look at our website, how we talk about ourselves, we are very much Cymru. Internationally we feel we have a bit more work to do yet. So we are going to this World Cup as Wales.
“But I think 2023 will be a year when we have a good discussion with all the different stakeholders – whether that Governments, our own boards, councils and decision-making bodies, staff, club, and players.
“We’re a very open democratic organisation and we don’t just unilaterally decide today to do something like that. I would say it’s the direction of travel, but there’s no firm decisions on it. It’s more almost by osmosis that we’re heading towards it.”
Mooney added: “You’ve seen countries like Azerbaijan, Turkey and others use their own language. They’re quite strong on it and we spoke to the Turkish at the Euro 2024 draw about it.
“We’ve also had unofficial discussions with UEFA over coffees at different events. Asking how Turkey did this, how other countries did that.”JAMB Result
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