Face aux r\u00e9actions, le joueur de 27 ans a reconnu avoir tenu des propos mal \u00e9valu\u00e9s et exprim\u00e9 ses regrets. Dans une d\u00e9claration publi\u00e9e en fran\u00e7ais, en chinois et en anglais, il a affirm\u00e9 comprendre que ses paroles avaient bless\u00e9 de nombreuses personnes en Chine et au sein des communaut\u00e9s chinoises \u00e0 travers le monde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Il a \u00e9galement r\u00e9affirm\u00e9 son respect pour le peuple chinois et son histoire, tout en pr\u00e9cisant que son intention n\u2019\u00e9tait pas d\u2019offenser qui que ce soit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
La pol\u00e9mique a aussi conduit la Ligue espagnole de football (Liga) \u00e0 r\u00e9agir. Son pr\u00e9sident, Javier Tebas, a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 ses regrets pour l\u2019offense ressentie par les supporters chinois et annonc\u00e9 la mise en place de protocoles de communication destin\u00e9s \u00e0 pr\u00e9venir de nouveaux incidents impliquant les joueurs et les clubs dans leurs relations avec le march\u00e9 chinois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Par ailleurs, la controverse s\u2019inscrit dans une tendance plus ancienne sur les r\u00e9seaux sociaux. Des internautes repr\u00e9sentent r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement Mbapp\u00e9 sous les traits de dirigeants autoritaires pour caricaturer son influence suppos\u00e9e sur ses \u00e9quipes, notamment lors de son passage au Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
En septembre 2026, dans un entretien accord\u00e9 au quotidien sportif fran\u00e7ais L\u2019\u00c9quipe, le joueur avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 reconnu que certains de ces montages pouvaient \u00eatre amusants, tout en critiquant les comparaisons avec des personnalit\u00e9s responsables de violences et de souffrances historiques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mao Zedong, mort en 1976, demeure une figure centrale de l\u2019histoire politique chinoise. Dirigeant du Parti communiste chinois, il a proclam\u00e9 la fondation de la R\u00e9publique populaire de Chine le 1er octobre 1949.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Le footballeur fran\u00e7ais Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 fait face \u00e0 une vive pol\u00e9mique en Chine apr\u00e8s la diffusion d\u2019une vid\u00e9o dans laquelle il semble \u00e9voquer Mao Zedong, fondateur de la R\u00e9publique populaire de Chine, en le qualifiant de \u00ab dictateur chinois \u00bb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":4000089017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"archived_slugs":[],"footnotes":"","igh_game_id":0},"categories":[7529],"tags":[7620],"byline":[7717],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-4000089016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualite-3","tag-internationalnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":7717,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":393,"twitter_handle":""}],"contributors":[{"id":7717,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":393,"twitter_handle":""}],"featured_image":{"id":4000089017,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/10\/CHN.jpg","alt":"","caption":"TOPSHOT - People walk past a bus featuring French football star Kylian Mbappe for Dongpeng Beverage Group's \"Bushuila\" electrolyte drink on a street in Shanghai on October 27, 2026. Kylian Mbappe was dropped on October 27 by two major brands in China after a video circulated online in which the French football star apparently joked about former leader Mao Zedong. (Photo by Jade GAO \/ AFP)","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":932,"height":582,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/10\/CHN-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/10\/CHN-300x187.jpg","width":300,"height":187},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/10\/CHN-768x480.jpg","width":768,"height":480},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/10\/CHN.jpg","width":932,"height":582},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/10\/CHN.jpg","width":932,"height":582}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000089016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4000089016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000089016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4000089018,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000089016\/revisions\/4000089018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000089017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4000089016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4000089016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4000089016"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=4000089016"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=4000089016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/10\/CHN.jpg\")
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