🤬 Chupaba cocos, Paraguayan politician's racism towards Mbappé | OneFootball

Paraguayan senator Celeste Amarilla, of the Liberal Radical Party, has sparked the latest racism scandal at the World Cup by mocking Kylian Mbappé.

Amarilla posted several racist comments on X after Paraguay’s elimination against France in the Round of 16 of the 2026 World Cup. 

The senator made racist remarks about Mbappé’s education and origins and also encouraged making a contemptuous gesture at him, even boasting that she does it herself in the Senate.

"The brute never even learned how to write; instead of mother’s milk he sucked coconuts, and the most educated thing he heard was chimpanzees. You should have shown him the finger, Orlando Gill — I do it in the Senate and nothing happens!!!" Amarilla wrote.

The comment adds to recent episodes of discriminatory speech directed at Black footballers, a problem FIFA and UEFA say they are fighting. Her status as a public official worsens the impact of the case.

So far there has been no response from Mbappé, FIFA, the French federation, or Paraguay’s Liberal Party. 

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