Amitabh Bachchan Terming ‘Africa’ As The World Cup Winner Sparks Outrage On Twitter

After a thrilling 90 mins at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, a French team with extraordinary talent was crowned the Champions of the FIFA World Cup 2018. Goals from teenage sensation Kylian Mbappe, Paul Pogba, Antoine Griezmann and a Mario Mandzukic own goal saw France beat Croatia in a 4-2 win.

While the world went berserk over a 6-goal thriller at the grandest stage of all and flooded Twitter with their tweets, one of them was Bollywood legend, Amitabh Bachchan. However, things did not work out as expected for the veteran actor.

Considering the fact that 14 members of the 23-man France squad that took part in the World Cup, are black, Amitabh posted a tweet following the final whistle. In his post, the 75-year-old mentioned that it was not France, but Africa who won the World Cup.

T 2868 – Thats it then … AFRICA won the World Cup 2018 !!!

— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) July 15, 2018

“Thats it then … AFRICA won the World Cup 2018.”

However, Amitabh’s tweet did not go down with the Twitterati and was slammed on the micro-blogging site.

With all due respect to you, that was an uncalled for statement. May be their forefathers were African, but they all were FRENCH.
Scientifically even our forefathers were AFRICAN as that's where Homo sapiens evolved 300,000 years ago.
Thanks,
A big fan of yours.

— Kshitij Mohan (@MohanKshitij) July 15, 2018

Iss hisaab se toh agar panama jeet jata toh trophy aapke bungalow mein hi rakhi jaati.

— Rofl Gandhi 2.0 (@RoflGandhi_) July 15, 2018

Such a cheap comment Ji…Didn’t expect this from u…. gotta give credit to a country that can unite so many immigrants…

— Venkateshwaran (@venki3187) July 15, 2018

Why do insult France we are all united we are one nation we are all proud to be French blue white n red we are diversity nation cant understand u sir particularly an intelligent person like u this is racism on your behalf we are fraternity liberty n equality #ka9 #katrina ray

— dhanesParis 75 (@Emerit19) July 15, 2018

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People did not see this coming from BigB.

You too sir ?? Same comment. Whyyy..??? It's a country with diverse people. Like India. Next time we will also say it's Assam who won the gold not India. Because hima belongs to Assam and tht is our mentality. Tweet Not appreciated

— anisha (@Anishakapoor90) July 15, 2018

They could only win because they consider France as their nation. Why r we dividing them ?? Let us keep the spirit of game and not these divisions …..

— anisha (@Anishakapoor90) July 15, 2018

This is the reason why India will never develop. A superstar like you have such an immature thinking.

— Ashok gurung (@ashokkka) July 15, 2018

Cheapness and nothing else but cheapness. Sorry that racist tweet was not necessary. Humor can be in other forms also.

— Veer Sorrykar 🙏 (@sorry_kar) July 15, 2018

Didn’t expect this Tweet from Big B. If a nation could integrate their immigrants to the mainstream of society so successfully, it’s a huge credit to them.

— Sougata Banerji (@BanerjiSougata) July 15, 2018

With 34.5 million followers on Twitter, Amitabh Bachchan has been active on Twitter for over 7 years now. But there’s one lesson Big B’s probably learnt today: Twitter spares none, even if you’re Amitabh Bachchan.