Pique and Neymar get booed by their own fans on International duty
Many Spanish national team fans took the opportunity of Spain's friendly against Costa Rica to boo Barcelona defender Gerard Pique for his comments on Cristiano Ronaldo's birthday party.
The Barcelona defender had taken a dig at Real Madrid's poor season during Barcelona’s treble celebrations by mocking Cristiano Ronaldo for hosting his birthday party after their 4-0 defeat to Atletico Madrid.
The Spain supporters jeered Pique initially at Spain's training session and also hooted and booed during the match when he replaced Sergio Ramos. The supporters made it a difficult night for the Barcelona man as all his touches on the ball were greeted with whistles.
Pique however, said that the fans reactions is not going to affect his performance as Spain gets ready for the Euro 2016 qualifier against Belarus. "Everyone can express themselves freely. One day they whistle, one day they applaud," he said.
Pique went on to suggest that he is used to such a response from the fans. "It has gone on for years, it doesn't bother me. This is my job. For me, coming to the national team is like coming home. I have a lot of caps and, every time they call me, I'll come," Pique said.
Spain's coach Vicente del Bosque defended Pique and said that the fans should not whistle at their own players. "I think that, if you whistle a Spanish player, you are effectively whistling the national team," del Bosque said.
"Let's not forget that most of these lads have represented their country 70 times at least, they have come up through the youth teams and have always behaved correctly; it's not right to whistle them."
Neymar gets booed for theatricals
Pique's Barcelona teammate Neymar was also booed by his own fans after his theatricals during Brazil's match against Honduras. Neymar had started on the bench in Brazil's warm-up game against Honduras ahead of the Copa America final after his long season with Barcelona.
Neymar who came on in the second half made a Honduras get sent off after going down easily in a challenge. This did not go down well with his own fans as they started booing him.
Neymar has received quite a lot of stick for his antics and this time the Brazilian fans were not impressed by him and made it known to Samba star.