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Euro 2024 tournnament director Philipp Lahm has criticised the match-long booing of Spain player Marc Cucurella by German fans in the semi-finals as “silly” and “exhausting”. Cucurella was booed throughout Spain’s semi-final against France after a handball by him in the quarter-final against Germany did not result in a penalty before Spain went on to win 2-1. “It was amusing at first. I hope the player could laugh about it too, because it was simply a sign that the German pain was still deep,” Lahm told Sunday paper Bild am Sonntag. “At some point I thought the whistles were a bit silly. What …

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