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Konami has cancelled its contract with Antoine Griezmann after a video in which the France and Barcelona star appears to ridicule Asian hotel staff resurfaced this week.<\/p>\n

The Snapchat video, which appears to show Griezmann as well as teammate Ousmane Dembele mocking Asian technicians during Barcelona’s tour of Japan in 2019, has sparked a vociferous backlash amid racism allegations.<\/p>\n

According to ESPN<\/a>, in the video Dembele says to Griezmann: “All these ugly faces, just so you can play PES, aren’t you ashamed?”<\/p>\n

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Konami has cancelled its contract with Antoine Griezmann after a video in which the France and Barcelona star appears to ridicule Asian hotel staff resurfaced this week. The Snapchat video, which appears to show Griezmann as well as teammate Ousmane Dembele mocking Asian technicians during Barcelona’s tour of Japan in 2019, has sparked a vociferous backlash amid racism allegations. According to ESPN, in the video Dembele says to Griezmann: “All these ugly faces, just so you can play PES, aren’t you ashamed?” Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"\nKonami dumps France and Barcelona star Antoine Griezmann after racism allegations | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Konami has cancelled its contract with Antoine Griezmann after a video in which the France and Barcelona star appears to ridicule Asian hotel staff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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