Paul Pogba -
JEE / SIPA
The politics that invites itself on the football fields?
An offside sanctioned quickly.
Twitter was agitated in the night from Sunday to Monday when
The Sun
dropped a small bomb: Paul Pogba would leave the Blues after Emmanuel Macron's remarks on Islam.
During the national tribute paid Wednesday to Samuel Paty, this history teacher assassinated in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) for showing caricatures of the prophet Muhammad to his students, Emmanuel Macron said that France "would not give up caricatures, drawings ”.
A line of conduct that triggered an anti-French wave in the Middle East, some Muslim countries calling in particular for the boycott of national products.
From there to what French sportsmen of Moslem confession leave the ship, as affirmed the British tabloid and as some twittos hoped?
Not in the case of the midfielder from Seine-et-Marne.
Paul Pogba, damn convert to Islam, decides to leave the France team following Macron's comments.
A wise decision, let's just hope that it is followed by other players in order to clean up the national team ...
- pharos (@ChandelonR) October 26, 2020
Paul Pogba who leaves the national team because of Macron's Islamophobia 👏🏼
- 🇦🇿❤️🇦🇿 (@Hkn_arslxn) October 26, 2020
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To verify all this,
20 Minutes
has of course sought to get in touch with the French Football Federation and relatives of the player, according to the expression.
But didn't have to wait for their answers.
At the end of the morning, Paul Pogba himself sharply denied on his Instagram account, stressing that it was “fake news”.
Paul Pogba denied any withdrawal from the France team on Monday.
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Long before the Manchester player's response, internet users had decided to clarify matters.
The Sun based their story on Pogba quitting the national team in response to Macron's comments on an article in some outlet called 195Sports based in Egypt.
Funny thing is 195Sports' own tweet on the story has 2 RTs
but tbh the whole team should quit.
so should macron & his gov.
pic.twitter.com/hKygyCebd9
- Mahmoud Bondok (@mamzbondok) October 25, 2020
Not enough to whip a Pogba, then.
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