The controversy surrounding Chelsea midfielder Enzo Fernandez unfortunately continues this week after the player was spotted back in his home country.
Enzo sparked fury by posting a video of himself and his Argentine team mates singing a racist and homophobic song directed at French players last weekend after he and his team mates won Copa America.
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The song was first sung by fans after the last World Cup, and it has seemingly now stuck around and has come back to the forefront after the Enzo video.
It was idiotic at the very least by Enzo and his Argentina team mates, and Enzo has since written an apology on Instagram. However, the story is hovering around.
Really bad from the Argentines
As the controversy of the chant sung by Enzo Fernandez and other Argentina players against French players continues, River Plate (Enzo’s boyhood club) fans are now singing it at their home ground El Monumental during their game against Lanus. pic.twitter.com/H1zK0PMd97
— Roberto Rojas (@RobertoRojas97) July 21, 2024
As above, fans were signing the song at Enzo last night at a River Plate game in Argentina, where Enzo was a guest at his former club.
It’s not a great situation at all.
People need to understand different cultures view things differently. In Argentina this is not really considered offensive and so they are happy to sing it. In the Western World we have imported racial sensitivity from America hence why this has blown out of all proportion. All that is needed is for people to say to Enzo in person they found it offensive, for him to apologise and learn and for everyone to move on like adults. Instead we have petulant children unfollowing him on instagram and blowing everything out of proportion. Shows just how immature our squad is. Time for everyone to grow up and move on. This isn’t a nursery school, this is elite level football for adults who should know better all round