‘A despicable woman’: Kylian Mbappé hits out at Paraguayan senator over racist attack

• Celeste Amarilla called striker a ‘colonised Cameroonian’

• French Football Federation to file criminal charges

The France striker Kylian Mbappé has hit back at a Paraguayan senator, describing her ⁠as a “despicable woman” after she launched a racist attack on him.

Mbappé’s ⁠penalty proved ​the difference in an ill-tempered match as https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jul/05/paraguay-france-last-16-world-cup-match-report">France beat Paraguay 1-0 in Philadelphia on Saturday to advance ⁠to the quarter-finals.

Celeste Amarilla wrote a long racist tirade on X, describing Mbappé as a “colonised Cameroonian, desperately trying to ⁠pass himself off as French,” and as a “brute who had not learned to ​write”.

Paraguay’s players should have ‌slapped him after the ‌match, she added.