The French trio of Kingsley Coman, Aurélien Tchouaméni and Randal Kolo Muani faced racist comments on their Instagram accounts on Sunday after France lost the World Cup final. Coman and Tchouaméni missed a penalty kick and Kolo Muani had a great chance. In the second half of extra time to help the French win the world title.
Racist comments appeared on the Instagram account of Coman, Tchouaméni and Kolo Muani after the World Cup final against Argentina. Monkey emojis were featured in many of the racist comments. Tchouaméni and Kolo Muani decided to disable the comment option under their Instagram posts. FIFA announced before the World Cup that it wanted to assist players to deal with hate messages.
During the penalty series, Coman saw his penalty kick saved by goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez and Tchouaméni shot wide from eleven meters. Kolo Muani had a huge chance deep in the second half of extra time to shoot France to the world title, but was met by the outgoing Martínez.
After the European Championship final between England and Italy, three England internationals Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka also fell victim to racist comments on social media. Rashford, Sancho and Saka missed their penalty kick in the penalty shootout in the final. And then received racist messages on social media. The British police made several arrests because of the comments towards the trio.
Dembele’s criticism by the press
Meanwhile, Ousmane Dembélé delivered such a poor performance in the World Cup final. That according to L’Équipe, he did not deserve a rating.
For Dembele, the final was already over before the break. Together with Olivier Giroud, the Barcelona attacker was victimized by national coach Didier Deschamps. Who felt compelled to intervene after the 2-0 deficit.
His forty minutes were unworthy of a figure, L’Equipe wrote in the report of the French team of the World Cup final about Dembélé. Causing the penalty kick did not contribute positively to the attacker’s assessment.
“Defensively, he too often lost sight of his direct opponents. And offensively he played all the balls in the feet of an Argentinian,” was the merciless judgment of L’Équipe.
