“Indecent winners” to the Argentina national football team
Argentina’s Lionel Messi (left), who won the ‘Golden Ball’, the MVP award at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Argentina’s Emiliano Martinez (center), who received the ‘Golden Glove’ given to the best goalkeeper, and the ‘Golden Ball’ awarded to the player with the most goals France’s Kylian Mbappe (right), who won the ‘Bout’. [EPA 연합뉴스 자료사진. 재판매 및 DB 금지]
(Paris = Yonhap News) Correspondent Hyun Hye-ran = French Minister of Sports Amelie Udea Castera criticized the attitude of the Argentine players who won the 2022 World Cup final in Qatar on the 23rd (local time).
In an interview with RTL Radio that day, Minister Udea Castera pointed out the actions Argentine goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez (30, Aston Villa) had done to French striker Kylian Mbafe (24, Paris Saint-Germain).
Martinez taunted in the locker room following the final, asking for a minute of silence for Mbappe’s death. Then, in the World Cup victory parade held in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, he brought a baby doll with Mbappe’s face on it.
Minister Udea Castera called the Argentine national team’s behavior “poor, inappropriate and out of context” and called them “disrespectful winners”. He said he was “pathetic” towards Martinez.
Earlier, French Football Federation (FFF) president Noël Grerae said that he had sent a letter of protest to the Argentine side, arguing that the actions taken during the World Cup winning ceremony were excessive.
Mbappe scored a total of eight goals in the Qatar World Cup to become the’top scorer’. He scored two goals in the second half of the final and one goal in the second half of the final once morest Argentina to turn the atmosphere of a dark defeat, but France eventually lost to Argentina 4-2 in the penalty shootout.
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