>Similarly I feel there are a significant amount of soccer
>people who don’t want to see Team USA look like France’s
>squad.

granted they're a minority and even more so when the team wins, but we're not so far removed from uber-dumb controversies over Benzema not singing the national anthem (which Platini didn't do either btw)

Also it's amazing how every major competition I have coworkers comment on how France has so few white players, while using every available euphemism to not say it openly ("Matuidi or Umtiti, that doesn't sound very French, hardy har har"). Every single time, like fucking clockwork. With fellow Euros being the worst offenders