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Argentina fans burn coffin with Kylian Mbappe’s face on at World Cup trophy parade
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Updated 09:26 21 Dec 2022 GMTPublished 09:14 21 Dec 2022 GMT

Argentina fans burn coffin with Kylian Mbappe’s face on at World Cup trophy parade

Argentina fans burned a coffin with Kylian Mbappe's face on during their World Cup trophy celebrations.

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Argentina fans burned a coffin with Kylian Mbappe's face on in World Cup trophy celebrations.

Around 4 million Argentines turned out for the open-top bus parade through the streets of Buenos Aires, though it had to be halted for safety reasons due to some fans attempting to jump onto the bus from above.

Players then looked over the city in helicopters instead.

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Argentina fans are known for being uber passionate when it comes to football but some feel as though a mark was overstepped when it came to their Mbappe gesture.

A viral video shared on social media showed a group holding up a coffin which contained a cross and a picture of France's talisman.

It was set alight as fans jumped up and down and chanted. The clip was posted by Get French Football news, with the caption: "Argentinians with a lovely 24th birthday present for Kylian Mbappé here."

Image: Twitter/@GFFN
Image: Twitter/@GFFN

Mbappe scored a hat-trick in the World Cup final, the first to do so since Geoff Hurst in 1966 - and yet he still ended up on the losing side.

He also put another penalty past Emiliano Martinez in the shoot-out, though misses from Kingsley Coman and Aurelien Tchouameni meant the trophy went to Argentina for the first time since 198

Martinez, a serial "s**thouse", trolled Mbappe after the game by asking his teammates to have a "minute of silence" for the PSG superstar.

The Aston Villa goalkeeper went a step further at the parade as he was seen clutching a baby top with Mbappe's face on it.

Messi, who plays with Mbappe at club level, laughed after being handed a toy which looked an awful lot like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

Fans therefore assumed it was a dig to Mbappe, who has been compared to the characters and even posed with a mask in the past.

Featured Image Credit: Twitter/@GFFN

Topics: Argentina, Kylian Mbappe, Lionel Messi, Football World Cup

Josh Lawless
Josh Lawless

Josh is a sports journalist who specialises in football and WWE. He has been published by Curzon Ashton FC, Late Tackle, Manchester City FC, The Mirror, Read Man City and Manchester Evening News. He provides coverage of professional wrestling and has covered two WrestleMania events for SPORTbible.

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