France striker Kylian Mbappe has hit back at a Paraguayan senator, describing her as a “despicable woman”, after she launched a racist attack on him following Paraguay’s elimination from the World Cup.Mbappe’s penalty proved the difference in a bruising and ill-tempered match as France won 1-0 in Philadelphia on Saturday to advance to the quarter-finals.Over a post about the France forward after the match, Paraguayan Senator Celeste Amarilla de Boccia wrote on X: “Bruto didn’t even learn to write. Instead of his mother’s milk he sucked coconuts and the most educated thing he ever heard were chimpanzees.”Among other things, the politician called Mbappe a “colonised Cameroonian, desperately trying to pass himself off as French”, “full of inferiority complexes, nouveau riche [new rich], arrogant and ugly”, and as a “brute” who had not learned to write.Paraguay’s players should have slapped him after the match, she added.Mbappe, the France captain, responded with a strongly worded statement defending not only himself but also the Paraguay players.