At the World Cup trophy parade celebrations in Buenos Aires, Martinez reignited his one-sided feud with Mbappe by holding a doll of him next to Lionel Messi on the team’s open-top bus parade.”
By Labaran Kenneth
365Daily – The French Football Association has launched an official complaint after World Cup-winning Argentina goalkeeper, Emi Martinez, taunted beaten France hero, Kylian Mbappe.
Mbappe’s scored a hat-trick in the World Cup final against Argentina but couldn’t stop the latter from clinching their third World Cup courtesy of a penalty shootout.
At the World Cup trophy parade celebrations in Buenos Aires, Martinez reignited his one-sided feud with Mbappe by holding a doll of him next to Lionel Messi on the team’s open-top bus parade.
Earlier, he had mocked the Paris Saint-Germain superstar in the dressing room immediately after Argentina’s victory in the final, leading to the French Football Federation (FFF) lodging a complaint with the Argentine FA as they deemed Martinez’s celebrations “shocking” and “abnormal”.
Speaking in an interview with Ouest-France, FFF president Noel Le Graet said: “We have launched different procedures. It is very shocking. These are boys who have given the best of themselves for the France team to succeed. It is important that we support them. I wrote to my counterpart from the Argentine Football Association. I find these excesses abnormal in the context of sports competition, and I find it difficult to understand. It goes too far. Mbappe’s behaviour was exemplary.”