"Africa champion of the world" – Benjamin Mendy: his brilliant response to criticism

The brave are out since the Blues have become world champions for the second time in their history. Opponents of the France team criticize in particular the countries of origin of the players. "It is Africa that has won" thus launched Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Trevor Noah the presenter of the Daily Show in the United States. A slippage that has not been missed by Evan Fournier, the French international basketball player and player of the Orlando Magic. In Italy, it is a rain of racist remarks that fell on the men of Didier Deschamps. "Monkeys with a ball", "Third World champions", "the team of the colonies of Afrance", can be read on social networks. "La Repubblica", Italy's second best-selling newspaper and the Adnkrono news agency, simply titled "It's Africa that won."

The French team victim of racism [19659003] Remarks that have obviously annoyed more than one world champion. On Twitter, Benjamin Mendy used a tweet from the Sporf communication agency to respond to the haters. She tweeted the names of the 23 Blues accompanied by the flags of their country of origin. In response, the left side tricolor took these same 23 names by adding to all a French flag. "Fixed" is "repaired" in French wrote the French international. Determined to appease critics, Sporf responded by replacing flags with cups in front of each player's name.

– Benjamin Mendy ⭐️⭐️ (@ benmendy23) July 17, 2018

Pogba
Tolisso
Mendy
Umtiti
Rami
Fekir
Kimpembe
N'Zonzi
Matuidi
Mandanda
Sidibe
Kante
Lloris
Hernández
Dembele
Mbappe
Griezmann
Giroud
Lemar

All Together As One For France pic.twitter.com/chvrJpSSJ9

– SPORF (@Sporf) July 17, 2018

By Amber L