Senegal captain Kalidou Koulibaly has questioned why his country’s fans have been hamstrung in their attempts to support their national team during the World Cup, with Senegalese nationals facing a travel ban in the United States.
“The federation did the work for us to have parents or our close family with us,” former Chelsea defender Koulibaly said to The Athletic after Senegal’s 3-1 defeat by France in their opening match of the World Cup. “But it’s true that some supporters couldn’t fly to America.
“I think that every team can have their people, so I don’t understand why people from Africa cannot have their people.
“I don’t want to speak about politics or something like this. I just want to speak about football, enjoy football, and I think football is for everybody.
“I just want to tell this and I hope that the situation will be OK, but for me the most important is that we have to play for our people.”
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