By Gura Garcia
16 Jul 2024, 12:45 PM EDT
It is a fact that the French Football Federation (FFF) will take legal action against the Argentine national team at FIFA, after Albiceleste players were chanting against their peers in the midst of the celebrations for having won the 2024 Copa América in the United States, with racist and homophobic chants. Also in the context of the enmity that exists between both teams since what was the final of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, when Lionel Scaloni’s team was crowned world champion.
The information about the decision taken by the French at FIFA was given to The French Football Federation will write to the AFA and will appeal to FIFA, reserving its own options for further action, the AFP agency said on Tuesday morning (July 16), based on a source close to the federation.
Quite delicate video
For several days a video has been circulating on social networks that was part from a live broadcast by player Enzo Fernández, through his official Instagram account, where you can see the players on a bus leaving the Hard Rock Stadium facilities in the city of Miami, after having defeated Colombia, celebrating, with offensive chants against France and especially against striker Kylian Mbappé.
“Cut the live,” one of his companions is heard saying to Enzo, aware of that this song could have some kind of repercussion against the team, while some of the players are with their medals hanging in the bus corridor and jumping, singing, celebrating and so on.
The chant refers to the foreign origin of some of the players who make up the team. the French national team, including Mbappé, and also contained homophobic insults.
The lyrics were created for the 2022 Qatar World Cup, recalling that this took place before that Argentina beat France on penalties with a score of 4 goals to 2 in Doha, after a highly tense match that ended 3 to 3 in the 90 minutes of regulation time and extra time.
Another racist episode by Argentine fans
At that moment an awkward situation arose when a street reporter from TyC Sports (Argentine channel) He was forced to cut off the television broadcast when he realized the content of what the Argentine fans who were singing that song were saying while it was live.
“No, no; censored,” were the words of the journalist, annoyed, walking away from the group of fans he was interviewing. The video quickly went viral. At the time, the FFF had already filed a complaint for racist statements on social media, as well as on SOS Racisme.
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