RIVER PLATE FANS DEFEND ENZO FERNANDEZ BY SINGING RACIST CHANT ABOUT FRENCH PEOPLE

River Plate fans sang a racist chant against the French team’s players on Sunday as they honoured Enzo Fernandez, the club’s former player who sparked a major controversy over the words last week.

It’s clearly stronger than them. Despite the huge controversy and the diplomatic tensions that resulted, River Plate supporters celebrated Enzo Fernandez by singing the racist chant against the players of the French team on Sunday. In this way, they welcomed the midfielder trained at the club and presented to the crowd before the match against Lanus (2-2) a week after Argentina’s Copa America victory.

The Monumental took up the chorus singing

A week earlier, the Chelsea player had broadcast the joy of the Argentinian coach in a live on social networks during which several players took up the racist and transphobic chant against the players of the French team, sung during the last 2022 World Cup won by the Albiceleste during an anthology final against the Blues. If he had quickly cut the video, probably sensing the disastrous repercussions of this passage, Fernandez had not escaped the outcry in France.

Several players had denounced these actions, including several of his teammates at Chelsea, such as Wesley Fofana. The French Football Federation (FFF) had filed a complaint for “racially offensive and discriminatory remarks”. Karina Milei, sister of the Argentine president and secretary general of the presidency, had met the French ambassador last Thursday to apologize. Javier Milei, the far-right president, had timidly calmed things down. “Sporting problems must be resolved at the sporting level”, he had proclaimed. Fernandez had apologized.

But all these good intentions were shattered again on Sunday when the vast majority of the Monumental stadium saw fit to show their support for their former protégé by loudly taking up the song of shame. “They play for France but come from Angola, they’re going to run well, they like to fuck trans people, their mother is Nigerian, their father is Cambodian but on their passport: French”.