{"id":779766,"date":"2026-07-05T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779766\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T03:00:08","slug":"french-football-chief-condemns-chilaverts-remarks-that-les-bleus-are-a-squad-from-africa-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779766\/","title":{"rendered":"French football chief condemns Chilavert\u2019s remarks that Les Bleus are \u2018a squad from Africa\u2019 | France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The French football federation president, Philippe Diallo, has condemned Jos\u00e9 Luis Chilavert after the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/paraguay\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paraguay<\/a> goalkeeper said Les Bleus are \u201ca squad from Africa\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cI condemn in the strongest possible terms the racist remarks made by Jos\u00e9 Luis Chilavert against the French national team, which undermine the values of respect, fraternity, and diversity in our football,\u201d Diallo wrote in a social media post on Saturday. \u201cIf he was once a great goalkeeper, this man has now fallen into disgrace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Chilavert, one of Paraguay\u2019s most famous footballers, made the remarks in the run-up to his country\u2019s last-16 clash with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/france\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a> on Saturday. The 60-year-old posted a screenshot \u2060on social media of comments \u200bhe attributed to former France \u200bforward Christophe Dugarry saying Paraguay did not stand a chance in the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cChristophe, you\u2019re right. In \u200b1998 we faced the French and now \u200cPY \u2060will face a squad from Africa,\u201d Chilavert wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The French team is known for its diversity and many of its players, such as Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 and Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, are the children of immigrants from Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Dugarry was part of \u200bthe France \u200bteam \u2060that won the 1998 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/world-cup-football\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a>, beating Chilavert\u2019s Paraguay \u200b1-0 in the last 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/05\/paraguay-france-last-16-world-cup-match-report\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France won Saturday\u2019s match<\/a> by the same score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The French football federation president, Philippe Diallo, has condemned Jos\u00e9 Luis Chilavert after the former Paraguay goalkeeper said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-779766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}