Relations between France and Argentina do not seem to be warming up any time soon. While the controversy following the racist chants sung by the Argentinian players after their victory at the Copa America had just died down, the excesses observed during the Albiceleste’s first match at the Olympic Games caused a real scandal in Argentina.
The whistling of the Geoffroy-Guichard crowd towards the Argentinian players and the invasion of the pitch in added time, which caused the match to be stopped for more than two hours, were vigorously denounced by the Argentinian media. “Olympic Games: the French disaster”, was the headline in Olé, which wrote: The Olympics, invaded by the absurd. France started with flaws worthy of the third world “.
“The biggest circus I’ve ever seen in my life”
While “Tyc Sports” mentioned a “unprecedented scandal”, Clarin denounces “the welcome given by France to the Argentines” And “a catastrophic organization and a worrying amateurism for the rest of the Olympic Games.” ” “What happened at the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium in this city in the south of France is not even seen in the deepest amateur tournaments in underdeveloped countries,” writes La Nacion.
And the tone is the same on social networks, where many Argentinian supporters add racist comments, especially after Javier Mascherano’s revelations about the burglary of which the Albiceleste was the victim in its training center. “It’s the biggest circus I’ve ever seen in my life,” he confided about the end of the match against Morocco, the goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli wanting to be more scathing: “We know where we came from and how they will treat us.”
