Euro 2024 has become a sideshow for France's multicultural squad, who have been unusually outspoken on the snap election at home
Euro 2024 has become a sideshow for France's multicultural squad, who have been unusually outspoken on the snap election at home
Mbappe, Parisian-born to Cameroonian and Algerian parents, being put forward to speak to the media felt poignant. He has already spoken prior to the opener against Austria, where he urged France not to “vote for extremes”. “We saw the results, they were catastrophic. We really hope it changes and that everyone mobilises to vote for the good side.”
Taking a stand, however, is not normally part of the French footballing vernacular. While protests in France are more commonplace than in the UK, on only a handful of occasions has the country’s top players tried to tackle political extremes.In the 1978 World Cup, Dominique Rocheteau spoke out against the human rights abuses by the ruling Argentinian junta.
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