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Mbappe dropped by Chinese brands for 'offending national sentiments'

Yahoo Sports ·First reported 8h ago ·Updated 7h ago

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Kylian Mbappe was dropped Tuesday by two major brands in China after a video circulated online in which the French football star apparently joked about former leader Mao Zedong.In China jokes about Mao, the country's founding leader who died in 1976, are…

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