Lamine Yamal says the anti-Muslim chants heard during Spain’s game with Egypt last night were “intolerable” and showed a “lack of respect”.

The repeated chant of “jump, jump, jump, whoever doesn’t jump is a Muslim’ echoed around Espanyol’s RCDE Stadium in Barcelona during the 0-0 draw with the North African nation.

A message to cease with the song on the big screen and over the public address system was met with whistles and Yamal expressed his disgust in an Instagram post.

The 18-year-old, who is a practising Muslim, wrote: “I am a Muslim, thank God.

“Yesterday in the stadium, we heard the chant ‘whoever does not jump is a Muslim’. I know it was directed to the opposing team and nothing towards myself as a person, but as a Muslim myself this does not stop being a lack of respect and something we can’t tolerate.

“I understand not all the fanbase is like that, but to those who sing those chants: using religion as something to mock people in a football stadium leaves you as ignorant and racist people. Football is to enjoy and support, not to offend people by who they are or what they believe in.

“Having said that, thanks to the fans that came to support. See you at the World Cup.”

Spain boss De la Fuente disgusted by the chants

The Spanish Football Federation condemned the chants while Luis de la Fuente, the Spain coach, said: “It is just not tolerable. I don’t fully know all the protocols in that subject.

“I have seen the message the FA put on the screens in the stadium. I think the vast majority of the stadium booed and whistled all the boors who sang this. Football is not violent. The violent people use football to have their moment. To those violent people, we need to identify them and put them apart from society. The further away they are the better.”