Enzo Fernandez later apologised for the controversial video.
Chelsea are already facing a crisis since the controversial video of Enzo Fernandez. His Chelsea teammate David Datro Fofana has called for football’s fight against racism to be taken seriously.
The 23-year-old was part of the Argentina squad that won the Copa America 2024 recently and during the celebrations, he posted a video on Instagram that showed himself and several other players singing a song that involved racist language towards French people.
The song in question featured the words: “They play for France, but their parents are from Angola. Their mother is from Cameroon, while their father is from Nigeria. But their passport says French.”
FFP president Philippe Diallo and Fernandez’s Chelsea teammate Wesley Fofana bashed the video. It demanded a public apology from the 23-year-old and he did it on Tuesday night.
Chelsea have also released an official statement to indicate that they had launched an ‘internal disciplinary procedure’ to determine how to handle the matter.
Chelsea teammates Fofana, Malo Gusto and Axel Disasi had unfollowed Fernandez on Instagram. Fernandez is believed to have personally apologised to his teammates.
🚨 David Datro Fofana on IG pic.twitter.com/H0XFllhs1l
— Pys (@CFCPys) July 17, 2024
Fofana released his own statement on social media to express his anger at the video.
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