“A fresh row over racism towards the French team has broken out in the build up to Tuesday’s World Cup semi-final showdown between France and Spain after a former Madrid prime minister described the team as not French. Former conservative leader Mariano Rajoy wrote in a newspaper column that the French team was ‘of a very high level, certainly, though without French players’, setting off a furious reaction. ‘France has no skin colour. Any statement to the contrary is either stupid, racist or a combination of both. This exceptional team shows the best side of France,’ foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot told French television. Barrot said he was confident the performance of the French team in the match would deliver the best response. …”
The Irish Times
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