Kylian Mbappé responds to racist remarks from Paraguayan senator Celeste Amarilla:
“You are a despicable woman and unworthy of your position.
You do not represent Paraguay, that country which has sweated passion and honor throughout the competition. Through your recklessness and your brazen racism, the entire world has already forgotten the journey and the historic effort that your players accomplished during this World Cup, making way for an incompetent woman who gives the worst possible image of her country.
I will never allow people like her the freedom to spread their hatred and racism across the world.”
As a woman I am extremely aware that the reason I have my rights is because a woman somewhere got up, got MOUTHY, organised, raged, made herself INCREDIBLY inconvenient until things changed for the better for all of us. Which is precisely why I see women who uphold the patriarchy as traitors to all women.
🚨 Thomas Müller on Jonathan Tah’s disallowed goal against Paraguay:
🗣️ “I honestly don’t know what VAR is looking at anymore. What a call is that? The goalkeeper must be the luckiest player on the pitch because, from everything I’ve seen, Germany have scored a perfectly legitimate goal. Jonathan Tah attacked the ball brilliantly, won it fairly and finished with authority. That’s football. That should never have been taken away.”
“We, the Germans, feel used and cheated. This is wrong. This is daylight robbery on the biggest stage in football. If that’s a foul, then football has completely lost its consistency because we’ve seen far stronger challenges allowed all tournament. The referee and VAR have searched for something that simply isn’t there.”
“You work your whole life to play at a World Cup, you fight for every ball, you finally score what could be the winning goal, and then someone sitting in a room hundreds of metres away decides to erase that moment over a decision that millions of people will disagree with. That’s heartbreaking for every player on that pitch.”
“I can accept losing to the better team. I can accept missing chances. But I cannot accept having a perfectly good goal taken away because of an interpretation that nobody understands. Germany deserve better than this, and football deserves better than this. Right now, it feels like we’ve been punished by technology instead of protected by it.”
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🚨 Thierry Henry on Germany's disallowed goal against Paraguay after VAR review:
🗣️ “Listen, that decision is a bad one. An absolutely insane decision.
Tah wins the header cleanly. He attacks the ball, gets there first and puts it in the net. For me, that's a perfectly good goal.
Then VAR gets involved and suddenly we're chalking it off because of the softest contact on the goalkeeper.
That's not football.
If every little touch on a keeper is going to be punished like that, then defenders might as well stop challenging in the box completely.
Germany have every right to feel robbed because that goal should have stood.
And when you look at what happened after, it's even worse. That decision has effectively cost Germany qualification to the Round of 16 after they went out on penalties.
VAR was brought in to correct clear and obvious errors, not to search for excuses to disallow good goals.
For me, that's a shocking call.”