Argentina's last World Cup
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The 3-4 loss to France seems to be still in the mind of the country's fans, who openly sang a racist song in front of the camera on live television, ridiculing France's close to the whole team of Africans, including the opposing team's number one player, Kilian McBarbee.
Argentinean sports channel TyC Sports was interviewing fans who had traveled to Qatar to support Argentina during the World Cup, but they suddenly sang a racist song ridiculing France for having a near-entire team of Africans, which ultimately forced the broadcast to be cut short, with lyrics such as: They play in France, but they come from Angola. France is interested in players like McBarbia, whose mother is Nigerian and father Cameroonian, but who has French citizenship on his papers.
France won the World Cup last year, including
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Kilian McBarbee scored 2 goals and 1 assist in a 4-3 win over Argentina, no wonder Argentine fans hated the French striker till the end of the year.
In addition, the French scorer Benschmar earlier during the training, due to injury withdrew from the World Cup army.
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Diggs admitted that the absence of his starter will have an impact on the team's attacking power, but said he will not select another striker: "The reason is because I have decided, it's so simple.