Geneva, July 7 -- The UN Human Rights office has condemned Paraguay Senator Celeste Amarilla's remarks on Kylian Mbappe, calling them "racist and dehumanising" and part of a wider issue of racism in football and sports.

The Paraguayan Senator, following France's 1-0 win over the South American country in the FIFA World Cup round of 16, called Mbappe a "colonised Cameroonian", "pretending hard to be French, resentful, newly rich, arrogant, and ugly". Amarilla also said that France "won by a fluke and Mbappe was nervous and scared to death the whole match, like his entire team."

The UN Human Rights spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan condemned the "racist" remarks against Mbappe, describing them as unacceptable and part of a broader pattern o...