This weekend, Marcus Thuram and Kylian Mbappé left their tongues in the locker room of the French selection. The arrival of “the extremes at the gates of power” took precedence over the entry into the running of the Blues this Monday.
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Published on 06/16/2024 at 7:05 p.m.
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Sport and politics, this old debate. Which is occasionally discussed, for example, when attributing world events to certain countries. With this recurring question: do athletes serve as examples? Can or should their notoriety allow them to take a position in the debate when the majority of them want to remain silent in the face of burning issues? However, since the start of the week, politics has been present during the Blues’ press conferences. And this weekend, French internationals, and not just any French internationals, abandoned the wooden language in the locker room. First, Marcus Thuram on Saturday, then Kylian Mbappé on Sunday.
But this time, in the case of the French selection, UEFA cannot prevent people from speaking out since it only concerns a troubled nation and where a collective of sportsmen and women from all disciplines has published a forum to vote ” for hope” by asking to vote “against the extreme right”.
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