France’s star midfielder Paul Pogba has reportedly quit the national football team over President Emmanuel Macron’s ‘Islamist terrorism’ statement.
Pogba’s decision to reportedly leave the French team comes after President Macron said that ‘monstrosity of Islamist terrorism’ must be dealt with strongly.
This comment by Macron was made following the beheading of Samuel Paty — a school teacher who was killed for showing allegedly communal cartoons to school children. He was decapitated on October 16 after discussing the caricatures of the Prophet with his pupils, by an 18-year-old Moscow-born Chechen refugee who was later shot dead by French police.
Pogba, as a practising Muslim, has reportedly decided to quit the national side in the wake of the widespread outrage over Macron’s comments — but neither Pogba nor the French Football Association have confirmed the star’s exit
Macron labelled the murder of Paty as an ‘Islamist terror attack’ and that the Islam terror wanted the country’s ‘future’.
However, This would be a huge statement from Pogba with Euro 2021 on the horizon.
Pogba, a World Cup-winner, has always loved playing for his country.
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