Mbappé Racism Clash
Mbappé rebukes a Paraguayan senator over racist remarks after a France match.
Summary
Kylian Mbappé and the French Football Federation condemned Paraguayan Senator Celeste Amarilla after she called the France forward a “colonized Cameroonian” following France’s 1-0 World Cup round-of-16 win over Paraguay. Mbappé scored the match’s only goal on a 70th-minute penalty in Philadelphia on July 4, eliminating Paraguay and sending France to the quarter-finals. Amarilla, a Liberal Radical Party senator, posted the comments on X and also questioned Mbappé’s Frenchness. Mbappé responded by calling Amarilla a “despicable woman.”
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