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On the occasion of a very political speech on Tuesday for the centenary of the birth of Mandela, the former American president made a digression on the world champions.
Le Monde.fr with AFP [19659003] On 17.07.2018 at 19:01
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On the occasion of a very political speech on Tuesday, July 17th in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama made a digression on the Blues, incarnation according to him of the vision defended by the first black South African president and apartheid fighter. The former US president hailed the diversity of identity of the French team world champion of football, whose members "do not all look like Gauls" .
"The regime [sud-africain] of apartheid [tombé en 1994] was entirely artificial " said the former US president, quoting Nelson Mandela. "What was true at the time still is today. (…) One sees oneself in the other, one shares hopes and common dreams. This is a truth incompatible with any form of discrimination based on race, religion or bad " he continued:
" And it is a truth that bears fruit in a very practical way because it allows a society to take advantage of the energy and qualities of all those people. Look at the France team that has just won the World Cup.
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"They are French, they are French!
"All these guys do not look like Gauls in my opinion" Barack Obama smiled, to the applause of Johannesburg's Wanderers Stadium, which was home to some 15,000 people. "They are French, they are French! he insisted.
"Just ask the French football team that just won the World Cup … Not all of those folks looked like Gauls to me. But … https://t.co/rZiMpZwUvN
Among the twenty-three Blues present at the World Cup in Russia, fourteen had origins on the African continent (Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Angola, Algeria, Morocco …), two were born there (Samuel Umtiti, Yaoundé in Cameroon , Steve Mandanda, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo)
While comments on the diversity of the Blues have bloomed since their victory on Sunday, defender Benjamin Mendy, very present on social networks, tried to close this debate Tuesday by a message posted on Twitter and became almost immediately viral, with nearly 20,000 "retweets" in less than thirty minutes.
In response to a message from the site Sporf, who, wanting to extol the diversity of players, badociated several footballers of the France team to the flag representing their country of origin, the player has taken the same list, has attached one and the same flag for each name, the blue-white-red flag, and concluded with a little smiley emoticon and a commentary in English: "fixed" ( "repaired" ):
@Sporf @[email protected] : //t.co/b3q3oEEnUV
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