This Tuesday, December 20, millions of Argentines celebrate with their hero, the title of world champion of Lionel Messi and his family. The country has been waiting for it for 36 years. In Buenos Aires, the crowd is huge, compact, impressive. In the middle, fans brandished a pike and burned a cardboard coffin with a photo of the French striker. Terrifying and outrageous. On the players’ bus that crosses the city, the goalkeeper of the world champions Emiliano Martínez, who had already made a name for himself by celebrating the title in a particular way, carried a doll. Not just any: a baby with a head of Kylian Mbappé. Lionel Messi was right next to him. Doubtful? Yes, probably.
On BFM, at 5 p.m., reporter Marie Gentric is live among the fans. Rarely a good idea when there are celebrations; It’s the best way to give voice to imbeciles or give them a screen presence they don’t deserve.
Taking his live, a bearded Argentinian grabs his microphone and screams at all costs Mbappé, the shell of your mother A poetic phrase that could be translated as ” Mbappé, the ch.. to your mother or Mbappé, your mother’s c… a common and vulgar insult and offense in South American countries, especially in Argentina, Chile or Peru. It is therefore directly aimed at the top scorer of the World Cup whom the Argentines do not seem to forgive for having scored three goals and having scared them in the final.
That’s all ? No. Our colleague, jostled by the crowd but that’s less surprising, says that she hears this insult a lot in the procession “and racist insults” she specifies. Other fans, tipsy looking for a second of glory on a TV on the other side of the world, are in turn screaming into the microphone. I think several times, always against Kylian Mbappé. An insult that needs no translation as it looks like its French equivalent.