The French are chirping Joel Embiid in Paris already:
"Give back your passport! You should have played for France!"
French fans chirp Joel Embiid at the Olympics
(via @OpenCourtFB) pic.twitter.com/BRumGD6oyX
— Crossing Broad (@CrossingBroad) July 25, 2024
Look at the French relying on the Americans to save them again. It’s over. You lose. Good day sir. Joel Embiid got citizenship and still didn’t have to play for your country. France is acting like a 14-year-old girl who used to put up those S(he) be(lie)ve(d) memes on her MySpace.
Is Victor Wembanyama and Rudy Gobert not enough? For an org that has never won Olympic gold, that Les Bleus arrogance is alive and well. They finally field one good team internationally and now French fans think they can just chirp their daddy for not wanting to join? It’s rich the French would care about who is and isn’t a citizen when they have a border so open they should call it Roland-Garros. How about you pay more attention to your poop river giving people e-coli and the shit flash mob that might ruin an entire event?
Embiid also doesn’t seem to even like France either because of the relationship it has with Cameroon, via David Marchese at the New York Times:
Obviously, I got my home country, Cameroon, which I love, and the U.S., where I’ve been for 14 years now, and then France, where I have a lot of family. I kind of felt rushed in that decision. I wanted to take as much time as possible, and it didn’t help that France had put an ultimatum on when the decision had to be made.
There’s a lot of things going on over there. There’s a lot of pushback as far as basically kicking out the French because it’s been so many years of oppression. So that was my mind-set. I still got my family living in Cameroon, and I don’t want to put them through any of that stuff. I want them to be safe, and the relationship between France and Cameroon or Africa in general is just not good.
I hope that gold medal game comes down to USA vs. France so Embiid can really rub it in.
Then he can celebrate in the locker room while the champagne spills over him and say this again:
In an otherwise somber press conference this made me laugh
As Joel Embiid should the way France has been dragging him pic.twitter.com/8JfXf1bdHE
— Sean Barnard (@Sean_Barnard1) April 24, 2024
