{"id":93897,"date":"2026-10-28T10:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/93897"},"modified":"2026-10-28T10:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:04:24","slug":"real-madrid-apologise-to-china-over-mbappe-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/93897","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid apologise to China over Mbappe comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>Real Madrid apologised to China on Wednesday for star striker Kylian Mbappe\u2019s comments poking fun at Mao Zedong.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cReal Madrid C.F. wishes to express its apologies to the Chinese people for any offence caused by the recent remarks of our player Kylian Mbappe,\u201d read the club\u2019s statement, which came 24 hours after the furore broke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe club joins in the public apology issued by Kylian Mbappe, in which the player himself expressed his regret for his words and reiterated his respect for the Chinese people,\u201d the 15-time European champions said.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy began with a clip of a video interview on a French show \u2014 since taken down \u2014 in which Mbappe talked about being amused by an internet meme of his face photoshopped onto \u201csome guy, think he\u2019s a Chinese dictator\u201d, an apparent reference to Mao.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese sponsors dropped Mbappe, who later apologised for his \u201cill-judged\u201d comments.<\/p>\n<p>Spain\u2019s La Liga also apologised but Chinese state TV has suspended broadcasts of matches from the Spanish top flight.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/real-madrid-apologise-to-china-over-mbappe-comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid apologised to China on Wednesday for star striker Kylian Mbappe\u2019s comments poking fun at Mao Zedong. \u201cReal Madrid C.F. wishes to express its apologies to the Chinese people for any offence caused by the recent remarks of our player Kylian Mbappe,\u201d read the club\u2019s statement, which came 24 hours after the furore broke. \u201cThe club joins in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-163-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":9039,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":9039,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93899,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93897\/revisions\/93899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}