Paraguayan Senator Gets Shockingly Racist Toward Kylian Mbappé

Heading into the 2026 World Cup, one of FIFA’s points of focus was curbing on-field racism. That is the genesis of the “covered your mouth” red card that so far has taken out Ecuador’s Piero Hincapié and Paraguay’s Miguel Almirón. The logic was sound: Players are probably less likely to do a racismo if their lips can be easily read in the moment, potentially heading off the kind of paralytic he-said-he-said that protected Benfica’s Gianluca Prestianni in his racism incident with Vinícius last season.

Alas, FIFA’s anti-racism protocols hold no sway in the real world, and they especially have no jurisdiction in the realm of good old-fashioned politician racism. Enter Paraguayan senator Celeste Amarilla, a member of the country’s center-left Partido Liberal Radical Auténtico party, who posted (and later deleted) a brutally offensive rant directed at Kylian Mbappé following Paraguay’s 1-0 loss to France. As translated by The Madrid Zone:

This brute hasn’t even learned to write. Instead of breastmilk, he grew up sucking on coconuts, and the most educated creatures he ever heard were chimpanzees.

You should’ve given him the middle finger, Orlando Gill (Paraguay GK).

A colonized Cameroonian, pretending to be French, resentful, newly rich, arrogant, and ugly.

He was nervous and scared to death all game, like his whole team. They didn’t even manage to score a single goal, until they got lucky with a penalty.

The only thing many of us blame the team for is not giving him a full-handed slap at the end of the game. I’m not even a football fan.