Argentine President Javier Milei has arrived in Paris, where he is expected to meet French President Emmanuel Macron after tensions escalated between their countries over the Argentine soccer team’s derogatory post-match chants about French players.
Argentine President Javier Milei leaves the Cathedral after attending an event marking the nation's Independence Day in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. celebrations in Miami earlier this month shows triumphant Argentine players chanting a song considered racist toward French players of African heritage."They play for France but their parents are from Angola," the refrain goes, with some transphobic slurs mixed in.
Last week, Milei removed the undersecretary of sport, Julio Garro, from his post for requesting that team captain Lionel Messi apologize for the chants."No government can tell the Argentine national team, world champion and two-time champion of Copa America, what to comment, what to think or what to do,” Milei's office said at the time.
“It's a comment that does not represent the opinion of the government,” Adorni said of Villarruel's post. “Relations with France are intact."in protest of a late goal by Argentina and the game restarting nearly two hours after it had appeared to finish.
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