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🇫🇷 World Cup NewsJuly 6, 2026· 1 min read

‘A despicable woman’: Kylian Mbappé hits out at Paraguayan senator over racist attack

<ul><li><p>Celeste Amarilla called striker a ‘colonised Cameroonian’</p></li><li><p>French Football Federation to file criminal charges</p></li></ul><p>The France striker Kylian Mbappé has hit back at a Paraguayan senator, describing her ⁠as a “despicable woman” after she launche

  • Celeste Amarilla called striker a ‘colonised Cameroonian’

  • French Football Federation to file criminal charges

The France striker Kylian Mbappé has hit back at a Paraguayan senator, describing her ⁠as a “despicable woman” after she launched a racist attack on him. Mbappé’s ⁠penalty proved ​the difference in an ill-tempered match as France beat Paraguay 1-0 in Philadelphia on Saturday to advance ⁠to the quarter-finals.

Celeste Amarilla wrote a long racist tirade on X, describing Mbappé as a “colonised Cameroonian, desperately trying to ⁠pass himself off as French,” and as a “brute who had not learned to ​write”. Paraguay’s players shoul

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