Argentina’s victory in the Copa America was marred by a growing scandal after the team’s players chanted a chant containing offensive remarks about French footballers on their bus.
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The Argentines sang a racist song about the French team, and the process itself was stopped by 23-year-old defender Enzo Fernandez, a Chelsea and Argentina footballer.
They play for France, but they are all from Angola! They fuck trannies, like gay Mbappe. Their mother is from Nigeria, and their father is from Cameroon. But their passport says French! Tell everyone they play for France, but they are all from Angola, they run fast, they sleep with trannies. Their mother is from Nigeria, and their father is from Cameroon, but their passport says French!
The French Football Federation said the video contained racist and discriminatory language and filed a complaint with FIFA.
Argentina’s Deputy Sports Minister Julio Garro said team captain Lionel Messi, although he did not appear to be involved in the controversial chant, should apologise because such incidents “put the country in a bad light”.
This statement was his last as deputy minister: almost immediately after Garro’s words were made public, the office of President Javier Millay fired Garro.
No government can dictate what the Argentina national team, world champion and two-time winner of the Copa America, can comment on, think about or act, nor can it demand this of any citizen. For this reason, Julio Garro is no longer the country’s deputy minister of sports, the government said in a statement.
Judging by the text accompanying the dismissal, it was not so much the official’s call for Messi to apologize that prompted it, but the fact that it was made in response to the indignation of the French authorities.
French defender Wesley Fofana, who plays alongside Enzo Fernandez at Chelsea, called the Argentine’s comments “rampant racism”.
French Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera said the Argentine footballers’ plan was a “pathetic spectacle.”
FIFA’s disciplinary powers extend beyond the game and stadium, if they are related to football. If a player, for example, insults another player in a racist manner on the Internet, proceedings are carried out. FIFA requires all member associations to provide for punishment for racist statements in their statutes, sports lawyer Christian Schickhardt told BILD.
Fernandez himself has already apologised for his behaviour on Instagram, writing that there is “no justification” for his words.
Source: Racurs
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