Kylian Mbappe Hits Back at Paraguayan Senator's Racist Attack

France striker Kylian Mbappe has hit back at a Paraguayan senator, describing her as a “despicable woman”, after she launched a racist attack on him following Paraguay’s elimination from the World Cup.

Mbappe’s penalty proved the difference in a bruising and ill-tempered match as France won 1-0 in Philadelphia on Saturday to advance to the quarter-finals.

Over a post about the France forward after the match, Paraguayan Senator Celeste Amarilla de Boccia wrote on X: “Bruto didn’t even learn to write. Instead of his mother’s milk he sucked coconuts and the most educated thing he ever heard were chimpanzees.”

Among other things, the politician called Mbappe a “colonised Cameroonian, desperately trying to pass himself off as French”, “full of inferiority complexes, nouveau riche [new rich], arrogant and ugly”, and as a “brute” who had not learned to write.

Paraguay’s players should have slapped him after the match, she added.

Mbappe, the France captain, responded with a strongly worded statement defending not only himself but also the Paraguay players.