The president of the FFF responded to the controversy launched by the National Rally on the song of Youssoupha for the French team.
The strange controversy around Youssoupha takes another turn. The day after the publication of the list of 26 Blues by Didier Deschamps for theEuro 2020, last week, the Twitter account of theFrench team had published a superb clip listing the players summoned, punctuated by a song written for the occasion by Youssoupha (Write my name in Blue, call out my name in Blue).
It was without counting the National Rally, which denounced the choice of the rapper. ” I think we gave in today to a scum part of France by choosing Youssoupha “, Launched the number 2 of the RN Jordan Bardell, before a lunar tweet from Marine Le Pen, who asked the FFF to” renounce the choice of rapper Youssoupha, whose insulting and outrageous remarks shock many French people ».
“I think we shouldn’t have done it”
If Roxana Maracineanu, the Deputy Minister for Sports, wanted to defend ” an activist singer who denounces racism and who is for diversity », Noël Le Graët, president of the FFF, questioned by The Parisian Wednesday has a whole different speech. The latter was not aware of this collaboration with the rapper and does not really like …
« It was our young employees in the sales department who had this idea to accompany the unveiling of the list of 26 Blues. Personally, I discovered it. Some like rap, others less. Youssoupha is a good rapper who, like others, may have had inappropriate lyrics. I believe we shouldn’t have done this and let the list be released as usual, without communication “, Thus launched Le Graët, specifying that the song of Youssoupha” is not the anthem of the Blues “. Enough to revive this debate launched by the far right.
Write my name in blue,
Scream my name in Blue! ????????#FiersdetreBleus pic.twitter.com/KErYY40a6j– French team ⭐⭐ (@equipedefrance) May 19, 2021
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