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Reuters
Jul 23, 2025, 01:00 PM ET
French football's governing assemblage has called for an probe into hateful comments made online pursuing the nationalist team's exit from the Women's Euro aft a punishment shootout nonaccomplishment to Germany successful the quarterfinals.
"The French Football Federation powerfully condemns the hateful remarks made astir definite players of the French team. Nothing tin warrant specified manifestations of hatred," the governing assemblage said successful a connection connected Wednesday.
"The FFF expresses its afloat enactment to each the players acrophobic and re-asserts its committedness to the values of respect and solidarity, which are the ground of our sport.
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"The FFF has decided to instantly interaction the National Center Against Online Hatred to let for the opening of an probe aimed astatine sanctioning transgression behaviour."
The FFF's telephone for enactment comes successful the aftermath of England defender Jess Carter's withdrawal from societal media implicit radical abuse she received online. France goalkeeper Pauline Peyraud-Magnin posted astir the maltreatment received by her teammates connected Instagram.
"There's 1 happening adjacent harder to judge than defeat: hatred," she wrote.
"We tin beryllium frustrated, we tin beryllium sad, we tin adjacent beryllium angry. But hatred should never, ever person a spot successful this sport.
"Whether it's against a subordinate connected our squad oregon an opponent: down each jersey, there's a idiosyncratic ... convey you to those who proceed to enactment america with kindness. We volition emergence again. Stronger. More united."
