How Paul Pogba Allegedly Quit France National Team After President Macron Racist Comments—-Sources from the middle East reports that Paul Pogba quit international football after comments from French president Emmanuel Macron alleged that Islam was the source of international terrorism.
This decision was coupled with the French government’s decision to honour the teacher who published offensive images of the prophet Muhammad, which the reportedly resented.
However, neither the 27-year-old Manchester United star who made his international debut in 2013 nor the French Football Association, has commented on the speculation.
United ace Pogba’s alleged decision comes in the wake of the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, 47, who was attacked on his way home from the junior high school where he taught in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, 40km northwest of Paris.
Mr Paty was awarded the French Legion d’honneur, the highest decoration bestowed by the French state, in recognition of the fact that he died for trying to explain the importance of freedom of speech.
Preisdent Macron described the murder as an ‘Islamic terrorist attack’ that took the life of the French teacher.
He later added: “Unity and firmness are the only answers to the monstrosity of Islamist terrorism.”
Pogba allegedly considered the decision an insult to him and to French Muslims, especially since Islam is the second religion in France after Christianity.
Calls are growing meanwhile around the world for people to boycott French goods in the wake of the president’s comments accusing Muslims of separatism and he pledged not to give up cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
