Der spanische Premierminister Sanchez verurteilt die rassistischen Äußerungen seines Vorgängers Rajoy über die französische Fußballmannschaft
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/07/12/spanish-pm-sanchez-condemns-predecessor-s-racist-remarks-on-french-football-team_6755407_4.html
Von pierrepaul
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Thank god Sánchez has a different opinion, but most Spaniards are still pretty racist, like Rajoy.
As an African Spanish myself, I wonder why Europeans keep denying dual identity.
Being French and African is perfectly compatible. That is in fact, the greatness of France compared to other countries. That anyone can be French, a citizen of the Republic, no matter their origins, religion or culture.
All the players in the French national team are 100% French, but France is not a European country. It is a country situated in 5 continents: Europe, North America, South America, Africa, and the Pacific. There are lots of French people who are not European.
So at least acknowledge the mixed heritage. At least acknowledge kids like Benzema, Dembele, Upamecano have to face way more discrimination throughout their lifes than Rabiot or Digne. At least acknowledge racism is very much alive in current day France, as it is in the rest of Europe. At least acknowledge Rajoy is a racist scum, and stop pretending these kind of statements are normal.
France has amazing football schools and of course those players are 100% French, but it is a fact African heritage players shine way more than European players in those schools proportionally.
Giving that recognition to African families that struggled a lot to reach Europe seems only fair to me. Pretending they had the same chances as people from European background is hypocritical. When did anyone dispute Griezmann “Frenchness”?
It seems like a taboo to point out that African heritage players have more success on average and proportionally than European heritage players, despite all the discrimination they constantly find from people like Rajoy.
What is it about France that makes racists see red? Plenty of other teams have players of immigrant descent
Can someone explain why the French national team looks like a far-right conspiracy theory?
Unfortunately, the reputational damage has already been done
Yet a ton of Spaniards scream racist shit to their own players for not being “Spanish” enough
As the great Thomas Jefferson once said, every man has two countries, his own, and France.
„please stop making them angry with us senór, before the match even starts“.
Imagine Nigeria suddenly becomes a full white team. Would it be racist if people called it out?
I’m just glad that in between two heatwaves we have enough time to bother and defend *french football team*
That’s called „la nouvelle France“ and is just the evolution of all the french people. Many have a foreign ancestor anyway. Also France used to have colony. It’s the créolisation
The good thing about Rajoy is that it’s very easy to outclass him.
The Spanish PM is all in in anything but address the corruption of his own government and himself.
What a POS that will hold to the powers at the cost of selling even his mother.
the face of the spanish team doesn’t seem of spaniard origins either, yet he is spanish just like the PM of spain