Khaled BeydounVerified account

I agree with France in need for cutting off racism, xenophobia, anti Islam sentiment and other, but 100% of that team is French. All of them are French. Maybe if we started there, instead of categorising them exactly like the racists do, we would make a decent progress

They’re French when they win but African when they lose

You are wrong. They were all grown up in small clubs in French suburbs. This is what they are. They are proud of their origins and that’s a good thing. But this time they are seen as French boys not like in 98 as « black blanc beur ». And that’s the true spirit of this country.

Where do you think they were recruited from before the club, or where their families came from?

Born and raised in France. Sheer product of it’s education in sport with their individual merits of course. But honestly the fact that they are African and/or Muslim doesn’t have anything to do. But it has to do with the opportunities that sport can bring to immigrants.

@khaledBeydoun What no snappy comeback?

come on khaled, stand by your words and argue with the players...tell them to call themselves african

The fact that (except a few white supremacists) no one is even mentioning the color of the players or their religion is a huge progress compared with 1998. It means that a large fraction of the elite is really color blind.

Sir as much as I love your message 50%+80%=130% which I believe is not possible for there to be 130% of a tea m???

We are not responsible for your inability to understand English

100% of our team is French. No communautarism or anything like this in France. Everybody has the same rights. This is why we have a real team. This is why we won. Watch and learn.

So why do French people discriminate against arabs and Africans when they apply to a job with their bac+5 ? Why the French always need to point the origins of a terrorist when this terrorist was born and raised in France ?! Hypocrisy !

Who are you to lecture France ? You want to be anti-racist, yet, you keep reminding the French players of their foreign origins. As if they were not "true" French, but "Africans". Most French players were born and raised in France, trained in French clubs.

They never emphasize on religious or community splits as you do to divide people. French players are proud to be French, and are a vivid celebration of French values of integration and tolerance. Maybe you should learn some things from them.

Acknowledging differences does not equal division. Maybe you need to learn the differences and also acknowledge the irony that the people that look exactly like them and originate from the same countries France colonized aren't being given the same consideration. Funny that.

No. When you keep on emphasizing on their origins, you divide and exclude them, just as racists and far-right extremists do when they say they are not "true French". Just look at this response from France's Mendy and please stop with this nonsense.https://twitter.com/benmendy23/status/1019269986282598403 …