FIFA 2022 Best Player award winner Lionel Messi of Argentina, FIFA 2022 Golden Glove award winner Emiliano Martinez and FIFA 2022 Golden Boot winner Kylian Mbappe pose with their trophies after the after Sunday’s final. Photo: Friedemann Vogel
Paris - French sports minister Amelie Oudea-Castera said she may contact her Argentine counterpart over the "vulgar" taunting of France forward Kylian Mbappe by some Argentina fans in Buenos Aires as they celebrated the return of the World Cup winners.
During Argentina's jubilant homecoming, a group of fans set alight a makeshift coffin lid adorned with a cross and picture of Mbappe, while Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez clutched a toy baby with Mbappe's face on it during an open-top bus parade through the capital.
Images of both went viral on social media.
Argentina fans burn coffin with Kylian Mbappe’s face on at World Cup trophy parade. pic.twitter.com/kj0n4qhsWD
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Oudea-Castera told RTL Radio she was looking at the issue.
"I am not ruling out discussing this with my counterpart," she said, adding that France's soccer body had also written to Claudio Tapia, president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), over the affair.
"I find all of this quite pitiful," she added.
The Argentine Embassy in Paris did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the matter.
Reuters
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