The Welsh Football Association will consider changing the official name of the national team to Cymru, seeking inspiration after Turkey’s request to be renamed Turkiye. Noel Mooney, chief executive of the Football Association of Wales (FAW), has pushed for Cymru to be the official name since it’s intercommunicated by staff at the team’s headquarters. The team should always be called Cymru; that’s what we call it here,” said Mooney. “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.”

The Welsh Football Association will think about changing the official name of the national team to Cymru in response to…

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