The Qatar World Cup is about to kick off in November this year, and defending champions France remain a big hit in the tournament.
But the Gallic rooster has a tradition of infighting at the World Cup, and now, such infighting genes are beginning to simmer.
One of france's most famous infighting in history occurred at the 2010 World Cup. At that time, france came to South Africa as the previous runner-up, highly anticipated, but the team did not get off to a good start, they played Uruguay 0-0 in the first round of the game, the second round of the first half against Mexico was a 0-0 draw, in this context, the instability of the team broke out, during the half-time, forward Anelka openly scolded head coach Domenek as a "bitch", the team's morale collapsed instantly, and finally lost to Mexico 0-2 in the second half.
Anelka's words and deeds were exposed by the media after the game, and the French Football Association immediately expelled him from the national team. However, such a decision triggered a strong dissatisfaction among the players, and defender Evra played with physical coach Divina in training, and then all the players of the French team left the training ground en masse under Evra's leadership and issued a statement of support for Arnelka's training.
The infighting eventually rose to the point where the then French president, Sarkozy, had to mediate in person, with the president of the French Football Association announcing his resignation afterwards and the French team hastily leaving South Africa with the bottom of the group.
The infighting in the French team stems in large part from the team's powerful African gang. And now, there is a rift between the two leading players within the African Gang.
French midfielder Pogba was recently caught in a family tragedy of brothers, he reported to the police that he was extorted 13 million euros by the criminal gang led by his brother, while his brother publicly revealed that Pogba was addicted to witchcraft and asked the wizard to curse the French star Mbappe.
According to the "Team Newspaper" that exposed the Anelka incident, after the lessons of 2010, the French Football Association attached great importance to the development of the situation, and has now called the two parties separately to communicate, while Mbappe said that they may take further action.
Witchcraft is also a major feature of African football, such as Pogba's friend Lukaku, who has a very close relationship with Voodoo.
Mbappe's hometown of Cameroon was a very famous football witchcraft incident. In the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations, cameroonian wizards were caught in the stadium ten minutes before the start of the semi-final match against the host Mali team when they were caught by the local police, the Mali police were prepared, because they had already discovered came in the previous game to find cameroon's spell casting behavior, because the country's wizarding advisers said that they were too strong in the method and had no chance of winning the fight, so they made this law enforcement action to physically break the feudal superstition, but this still did not prevent cameroon from winning the game 3-0. The incident eventually reached the point where the presidents of the two countries came forward to condemn each other, and the African Football Federation imposed a one-year ban on cameroon after the game, and the head coach was banned from entering the coaching bench in the final.
Everyone may have just laughed at witchcraft, but cultures vary from country to country, and Mbappe's recent poor performance in the league has been blamed by many local fans.
Many fans often refer to france as "African United". In fact, African players are not monolithic, Mbappe's father is Cameroonian, his mother is Algerian, And Pogba's parents are guinean, and the cultural differences between the two players are very different in addition to similar skin color. With such a composition of players, the infighting of the French team can be imagined.