Kylian Mbappe Slams Senator Celeste Amarilla After Racist World Cup Tirade

Mbappe Condemns “Abhorrent” racist comment

After scoring the winner vs Paraguay, Kylian Mbappe condemned a racist attack from Senator Celeste Amarilla and received support from the French Football Federation.

'Despicable' says Mbappe as he slams Paraguayan Senator over racist attack...

France forward Kylian Mbappe called out a Paraguayan senator on Monday, branding her a “despicable woman” after she posted a racist rant following Paraguay's World Cup exit.

 

Mbappe's spot-kick was the winner in a tense, physical contest in Philadelphia on Saturday, sending France through to the quarter-finals with a 1-0 victory.

Senator Celeste Amarilla posted an abusive thread on X targeting Mbappe. She called him a “colonised Cameroonian pretending to be French” and a “brute” who “can't even write,” and said Paraguay's players should have hit him after the game.

France captain Mbappe fired back with a firm statement, defending himself and also speaking up for the Paraguay squad.

“Madame Celeste Amarilla, you are a despicable woman and unworthy of your position. You do not represent Paraguay, that ⁠country which has sweated passion and honour throughout the competition,” he wrote.

“Through your recklessness and your brazen racism, the entire world has already forgotten the journey and the historic effort ‌that your players accomplished during this World Cup, making way for an incompetent woman who gives the worst possible image of her country.

“I will never allow people like her the freedom to spread their hatred and racism across the world.”

The French Football Federation has taken things further, confirming it will pursue criminal charges and calling her comments “utterly abhorrent and unacceptable.”

Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà… pic.twitter.com/EnYmgQXvPL

— Kylian Mbappé (@KMbappe) July 6, 2026

“These remarks are ‌criminal and reprehensible. They must be prosecuted here as elsewhere. The FFF is reporting the matter ‌to the public prosecutor's office with a view to legal proceedings,” it said.

“These remarks bring shame upon those who make them and those who disseminate them. The players of the French national team ⁠represent France; it is ⁠our country that ‌is being insulted.”