The telling bit in the video of Enzo Fernandez and other Argentinian players singing a racist song about France following their victory in the Copa America final is the voice you can hear just at the end. “Corta (el) vivo,” someone says — “stop the live stream.” They know.
They know what they’re saying. They know that what they’re saying is profoundly offensive, and they know what will happen if the outside world hears it. Advertisement This isn’t one of those things that can be equivocated.
It’s not something that can be denied. The words are clear, and we know the words because it’s a song that has been around for a couple of years. The words to the chant were: “They play for France, but their parents are from Angola.
Their mother is from Cameroon, while their father is from Nigeria. But their passport says French.” The song in question came from a group of Argentina fans before the 2022 World Cup final, which was flagged at the time by French anti-racist protestors as an “expression of a far-right ideology”.
GO DEEPER French Federation filing complaint over 'unacceptable racist' chants by Argentina players Frankly it’s bad enough that Argentina , presumably insulated from a PR perspective by their victory at the World Cup, didn’t seek to distance themselves more from the song, but the fact the players seem to have incorporated it into their celebrations is so much worse. If nothing else, it speaks to an unpleasant collective mentality and pe.