Lionel Messi within the 2024 Copa América last between Argentina and Colombia on the Arduous Rock Stadium in Miami.
Photograph: EFE – CJ GUNTHER
Argentine Sports activities Undersecretary, Julio Garro, mentioned this Wednesday that Lionel Messi and the president of the nation’s soccer federation (AFA) ought to apologize for the racist chants of some nationwide workforce gamers after their Copa América 2024 to win though he retired hours later.
“I feel he’s the captain of the nationwide workforce [Messi] The president of the AFA also needs to apologize for that matter. [Claudio Tapia]”, the official informed native radio Urbana Play on Wednesday morning.
Just a few hours later, and after being denied on social networks, Garro wrote in X: “I undoubtedly deny that I requested Messi to apologize. “It might be a scarcity of respect for many who will endlessly honor us with their human high quality and sportsmanship.”
Uncommon: the sports activities undersecretary, Julio Garro, “categorically” denied that he had “requested Messi to apologize”, as he’s clearly heard within the observe radio this morning pic.twitter.com/SoE3qxinSB
— El Vigía Company (@AgenciaElVigia) July 17, 2024
Earlier, in his radio intervention, Garro had mentioned that the video with the songs “is one thing that leaves us as a rustic in a nasty scenario.”
Since Monday, a video has been circulating on social networks exhibiting a number of Argentine gamers on the workforce bus in Miami after the Copa América last (1-0 victory over Colombia) beginning to chant racist chants towards the French earlier than they stopped the unfold.
The total model was sung by Argentine followers on stay tv throughout the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, wherein the Albiceleste beat France within the last on penalties 4-2, after a 3- 3.
In it, phrases like “they play in France, however they’re all from Angola” are sung, and it’s mentioned about Kylian Mbappé that “his previous woman (mom) is from Nigeria” (though she is definitely Franco-Algerian), “His previous man is Cameroonian, however within the French nationality doc.”
This is Enzo Fernandez and the Argentina gamers celebrating that Copa America victory by singing that racist chant in France from the 2022 World Cup pic.twitter.com/pxoaX2MApE
— GC (@ValverdeSZN) July 15, 2024
The video of the dispute was recorded and broadcast by Argentine midfielder Enzo Fernández, a participant for Chelsea in England, who apologized for the occasions on his Instagram account on Tuesday night.
FIFA introduced on Wednesday the opening of an investigation into racist chants and condemned “all types of discrimination”. The case additionally prompted Chelsea to open a disciplinary file towards Fernández.
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