Victim of racist insults from Paraguayan senator Celeste Amarilla, Kylian Mbappé publicly attacked the latter’s vile comments. His club, Real Madrid, communicated in turn and defended its French striker.
“Real Madrid CF would like to express its strongest condemnation of the deplorable racist and xenophobic comments made by Paraguayan senator Celeste Amarilla against our player Kylian Mbappé. Our club strongly condemns this type of comments, unworthy of a political representative, and expresses its total support for our player Kylian Mbappé, who is a model for millions of people, and in particular for children around the world. These behaviors that incite hatred have no place in society. Football and sport are vectors of equality and solidarity, and Real Madrid will continue to work to definitively eradicate racism, xenophobia and violence», We can read in a press release.
