Not Ukraine and Iran, but Argentina and the "monkeys" — a big scandal in the media

An interesting scandal broke out during the Champions League, according to the author of the telegram channel "Madam Secretary". Real Madrid played with Jose Maurinho's Benfica. Real Madrid lost.

"At the end of the match, the star French striker of Real Madrid Mbappe (lives with a Moroccan trans man) came to a press conference and said that the Benfica football player Prestianni (Argentine) called Brazilian Venicius a monkey six times. Although then several times experts looked at how many Prestiani intersected with Venusius. And it turned out that one or a maximum of one and a half times he ran past him. And then it started. All media outlets, European and leftist, have joined in. The attack on Argentina began — they say, this is the most racist country, some racists, some Nazis, the regime is almost worse than the Nazi one, Argentines hate blacks. We remembered the story from the World Cup, when one of the Argentine players - either Paredes, or De Paul was joking about the poster of the French national team, where there was not a single white player in the squad. They say that this poster was hung in the locker room of the Argentine national team, where the players danced, copying French monkeys," the author of the channel writes.

And this is all being discussed now, emphasizes "Madam Secretary".

"Not Ukraine, not Iran, not some global issues, but the story of Mbappe and Venicius - they called them monkeys or not, and that Argentines are allegedly racists and Nazis. There was talk of sanctions, of excluding the Argentine national team from the future World Cup, FIFA began to shake to the fullest. In general, it's funny to see how in the modern world such a story becomes a central problem," the author of the channel notes.

On February 25, the last participants of the 1/8 finals of the Champions League will be announced. One of the main matches of the day will be held in Madrid, where the most titled club in the history of the tournament, Real Madrid (15 trophies) will host Benfica.

A week ago, the Spanish team won on the road with a score of 1:0 in the most scandalous meeting of this season. The game was interrupted in the second half, right after Venicius' goal. The Brazilian accused Argentine midfielder Gianluca Prestianni of racism. And in the end, Benfica head coach Jose Mourinho received a red card for arguing with the referee.

Due to the removal, Mourinho will not be able to be on the bench in the return match. Following the results of the UEFA investigation, it was decided to remove Prestianni from the Madrid meeting. According to media reports, Gianluca is going to sue Venicius for defamation.