Gavin Bazunu is a goal-keeper from Ireland. He plays for the national team. Now there are games in the Nations League. This is an important contest in foot-ball. Ireland plays 2 times against Israel.
Gavin Bazunu does not join these games. He leaves the team. He says: He does not want to play against Israel. He finds the killing of in-no-cent peo-ple wrong. He means the war in the Gaza Strip.
Gavin Bazunu writes on In-sta-gram about his reasons. He is a very re-li-gious per-son. He wants to live by his val-ues. His pro-test does not aim at Jew-ish peo-ple. He wants to set a sign against vi-o-lence.
The o-ther play-ers from Ireland play any-way. They talk about it for a long time. A ma-jo-ri-ty wants to play the games. But they plan signs for peace. The play-ers wear black arm-bands. They do not shake hands with the ri-vals.
The play-ers al-so do-nate their mon-ey from the games. They give the mon-ey for good pur-pos-es. The games do not take place in Israel or Ireland. They take place on neu-tral ground. One game is in Hun-gary and one game is in Ser-bi-a.
