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CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro believes that Africa and not France are the real winners of the 2018 World Cup.
France beat Croatia 4-2 in Sunday's final in Moscow, but with a team featuring a number of African heritage players.
"The French team looks like the African team.In reality, Africa has won African immigrants arrived in France," Maduro said at a celebratory event. Police Day in Venezuela Monday
"How much did they despise Africa? African players or sons of Africans."
Two of France's scorers against Croatia have African roots: Paul Pogba's parents are from Guinea while Kylian Mbappe's parents are Cameroonian and Algerian.
Umtiti was born in Cameroon, the parents of Blaise Matuidi are Angolan and Congolese, the parents of N & # 39; Golo Kante are Malians, while the father of Raphael Varane is from the island of Martinique in the Caribbean.
Of the 23 men, 16 have African roots. So, although captain Hugo Lloris, scorer Antoine Griezmann, and striker Olivier Giroud are of European descent.
Maduro nevertheless congratulated the team for the "beautiful" way they played, and paid tribute to his ally and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for presenting "the best World Cup in the world." football history "
The Venezuelan leader, who presided over the collapse of the country's economy and who was widely condemned for the repression The opponents called France and Europe in together to use this victory as a stepping stone to end the mistreatment of Africans and Latin Americans
"It's enough of racism in Europe against Africans." 19659003] "Let's hope that France and the United States Europe will appreciate that we, Southerners, Africans, Latin Americans, are worthy and powerful. "
Maduro has a tense relationship with French President Emmanuel Macron, who accuses him of having set up place a "dictatorship" the South-American country ricain
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