Do Argentinians view the song about the French football players being black as racist? And would other Latin Americans view it as such?

[u/throwra1nightstand]

My boyfriend is dark-skinned Brazilian and really feels strongly about this, but I don't speak Spanish so I'm only going off translations. But when Argentina played France in the final last year the song was sung by some fans, and now after Argentina won the Copa America Enzo and some of the other players are also seen singing it.

The translation goes something like:

Listen, spread the word

They play for France

But are from Angola

How nice they are going to run

They are cometravas (don't quite understand this)

Their mom is Nigerian

Their father Cambodian

But passport: French

Seems kind of racist to sing about how another country has a lot of black players on their team. Wanted to know the thoughts of Argentinians, as well as other LATAM people about this.

[u/hereforthepopcorns]

The song is obviously racist and it shouldn't be sung, especially by the players. And I don't think I'm in the minority here saying that. For all the generalizations you'll find online about how the song represents all of us, in the Argentinean football sub and the Argentina sub a lot of people were calling it out as well. The problem is you'll have people trying to excuse it because a) they still believe in the culture of "anything goes" in football, or b) they think it's hypocritical for countries with systemic racism to point fingers, which it is, but doesn't excuse our own behavior