Chelsea’s Enzo Fernandez is at the centre of a racism and homophobia storm after live streaming Argentina’s players as they appeared to begin singing a vile chant about the France team.
The French Football Federation was planning to complain to Fifa about a video subsequently posted to social media showing Fernandez and his team-mates celebrating winning the Copa America on their team bus.
The video features members of the team appearing to begin singing a chant that includes racist and homophobic slurs, including against France captain Kylian Mbappe.
The chant dates back at least to the World Cup final in which Argentina beat Mbappe’s country on penalties.
The words falsely stereotype France squad members as being “all from Angola” or having a “Nigerian” mother and “Cameroonian” father, as well as making crude insults and wild accusations about Mbappe’s sexuality.
Clips posted of Chelsea midfielder Fernandez’s video show the team seemingly at least singing the Angola part of the song before the recording cuts off.
One member of France’s World Cup squad, Eduardo Camavinga, was born in Angola.
Telegraph Sport has approached the Argentinian Football Association, Fifa, the Football Association and Chelsea for comment.
The clip emerged a month after Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur used a racist slur against captain Son Heung-min during an appearance on Uruguayan television.
Speaking to Canal 10 on the show Por La Camiseta, Bentancur had appeared to suggest that Son and all “his cousins” looked the same.
Bentancur issued an apology for his comments, which Telegraph Sport was told the FA was looking into.
Spurs and Son released statements of their own, with the South Korean insisting he and Bentancur remained “brothers” and that “nothing has changed” in their relationship.
The club said they fully supported Son in feeling he could “draw a line” under the incident, adding that they would provide “further education” for all their players.
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