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Absolutely, but it's entirely plausible that national sports teams have a part to play in such things, after all they're one of the most obvious expressions of national identity there is. One argument would be that the national team being called Cymru helps normalise the language further and encourage more speakers which lines up with your point on language/national survival.
I can think of a few reasons the FAW have done this. Firstly they get press from it, secondly it would line up the national team with the domestic system which already uses it so it's a fairly natural progression, thirdly it gives them a nice point of differentiation when it comes to marketing, fourthly it continues on a path they've been going down for a while.
And the big secret is you can continue to call the team Wales if you want! Noel Mooney and the Pontcanna Crachach won't come to your house and burn it down if you call the team Wales. There's been a big overreaction to this but there really is a certain irony to people who were presumably belting out the national anthem and Yma O Hyd a few months ago being so annoyed by the use of the Welsh language
Have you been to the new World War 2 Museum in Gdansk? Well worth a visit.
As part of my travels I always bone up on the history of a country and Poland has had an interesting history even before this century.
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Anyway, Caerdydd are home on Wednesday
Half the Welsh squad were born in England for Euro 16
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Because 70% of the population cant speak Welsh. It is wrong to pander to the minority and therefore marginalise the majority. It is about time that the majority stood up to be counted against the vociferous and sometimes fanatical minority who basically run the country. Just because someone doesn’t speak the language doesn't make them any less Welsh or important.
Why is it wrong to try and keep alive a language that was almost wiped out by our neighbours?
Its hardly a hassle for anyone, you can call it Wales, others can call it Cymru. It's not as if we have many songs involving the words.
Why people are getting their knickers in a twist I don't know.
I find it amazing that we don't call our country by its own name in its own language.
It's 2022
The Welsh language is as far as I am aware as strong as its been in my lifetime
It's never going to die and those of us who don't speak Welsh and do not wish to but are middle of the road people with often Welsh, Irish, English and sometimes other roots .....do not want the language to die out
But what is the point in 2022 in the FAW changing the name of the team ?
We know for most of us It's still Wales .....so what is the point ?
Publicity ?
Wales/Cymru live on BBC2 now