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French football fans accused Trevor Noah of racism after the comedian joked that "Africa won the World Cup" because most players in France are black
triumph at home, with a 4-2 victory against Croatia in last Sunday's final at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow
"Africa won the World Cup", South African Noah, host of The Daily Show said in a segment on the late-night American television program this week.
"I understand, they have to say that is the team from France.But look at these guys.You do not have this tan dragging in the south of France my friends
"Essentially, if you do not understand, France is the relief team of Africans, once Senegal and Nigeria have been eliminated, that's what we expect." [19659002] Noah's remarks come just a day before former US President Barack Obama takes the example of the France team. "Just ask the football team who has just won the World Cup, "said Obama during a speech in honor of Nelson Mandela, the late South African leader, in Johannesburg." All these people did not look like me not to Gaul. But they are French! They are French. "
On the team of 23 players from France, 16 players have an African heritage but only three are not born in France Samuel Umtiti and Steve Mandanda install respectively in France and Cameroon, aged two, from Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the family of Thomas Lemar emigrated to France from Guadeloupe, Uzbekistan
France, "a user wrote in response to a tweet containing a video clip of Noah's remarks from the official Twitter account Daily Show . "It's so racist to think that because they're black, they're not French."
The organizer of the Fan Zone de France apologizes for the celebrations of the Hong Kong World Cup, but happy that it is not as bad as in Paris
from France.You refuse them the right to be French? Is this what you want? also offer to all African Americans? ", adds the user.
Another Twitter user wrote: "This joke is very offensive to all French people of foreign origin, we are fighting to be considered 100% French, I know you did not want to hurt, but you must recognize that it was a misstep. "
"I like you guys, but there may be something wrong when you start using the" joke "already made by the Nazis."
have not been impressed.
Fans of France face the hangover "It's so racist, you should be ashamed," wrote Nagui Fam, a French television and radio personality of Egyptian descent.
French comedian Kevin Razy said: "That's what racists say about our team here in France.You did not know, now you know."
Martin Medus , former French viewer, said: "You are a racist.These people are French and p ***** so that they always remember their origins.
" They are fighting to tell people that They are proud of the French and yet you despise them by calling them Africans. Are the Lakers an African team? "
The French politician Stéphane Tiki, born in Cameroon, also weighed in. He said:" Was Barack Obama an African president? The France team wins the World Cup, respects the French players! "
Noah's defended on Twitter on Thursday, following criticism from France's ambassador to the United States, Gerard Araud, say they are African. I'm not saying that it's a way to exclude them from their Frenchness, "Noah wrote in a tweet. "I say it to include them in my Africanity."
The Embassy of France in the United States had posted a tweet on his official Twitter account containing a picture of a letter from Araud to Noah.
"Nothing could be less true," wrote Araud to Noah. "As many players have already said … they were educated in France, they learned to play football in France, they are French citizens.
" They are proud of their country, France . The rich and varied origins of these players are a reflection of the diversity of France.
Araud added: "Calling them an African team, it seems that you are denying their Frenchness. This, even jokingly, legitimizes the ideology that claims whiteness is the only definition of being French. "
With the media highlighting the diversity of African origins in the France team after their triumph, some of the players insisted that they are a French team
Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy responded to a tweet that indicated where each player's family came from with his own tweet containing the names of the France team with a flag of France next to each. [19659026] Tolisso [19659030] Mendy
Cards
Rami
Fekir
Kimpembe
Zonzi
Matuidi
The Mandanda
Sidibe
Kante
Lloris
Hernandez [19659030] Dembele
Mbappe
Griezmann
Giroud
Lemar
Fixed
– Benjamin Mendy (@ benmendy23) July 17, 2018
] All players of the winning team of the World Cup of France is a French [19] 659002] Seven players of the France team are not of African descent. All were born and raised in France, with the exception of Lucas Hernandez, who was born in Marseille but moved to Spain with his four-year-old family. he now plays for the Spanish club Atletico Madrid
Florian Thauvin and Benjamin Pavard were born in Orléans and Maubeuge, France respectively, to French parents; the guardian's father and captain Hugo Lloris is of Catalan origin; striker Olivier Giroud has two Italian grandmothers; striker Antoine Griezmann has a Portuguese mother and a German father; The father of Raphael Varane comes from the island of Martinique in the Caribbean
Of the 16 players of African descent, the family of the middle star Paul Pogba is from Guinea, while 19-year-old Kylian Mbappe's mother is Algerian. and his Cameroonian father
Nabil Fekir was born in Lyon to Algerian parents, the families of Djibril Sidibe and Ngolo Kante having roots in Mali.
Presnel Kimpembe has a Congolese father and a Haitian mother; Blaise Matuidi has an Angolan father and a Congolese mother; Alphonse Areola has Filipino parents; Steven N & # 39; Zonzi is French Congolese; and Ousmane Dembele has a Senegalese-Mauritian mother while his father is from Mali
Corentin Tolisso's father is from Togo, the parents of Adil Rami are from Morocco and Benjamin Mendy's family has his family. roots in Ivory Coast
