Last night the entire world was divided into parts of cheerleading squads. One which was supporting France and the other which was rooting for Croatia. However, seems like Big B was in another zone and while every world cup has its own anthem, the playlist over here was stuck on Shakira's 'Waka Waka' because he tweeted that finally Africa won the cup.

T 2868 - Thats it then ... AFRICA won the World Cup 2018  !!!

— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) July 15, 2018

To give more perspective to the statement of a learned man, he shared a tweet by another user stating that how the French team was actually a majority of African origin players.

Thats it then Africa won the World Cup 2018 https://t.co/jXd7nXuIaQ

— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) July 15, 2018

Now if we get into the technicality of this debate, then we can say that maybe he was right. However, twitterati refuses to agree on this and were actually amazed that how there was no credibility given to France here.

Africa ko caps me likha hai kyu?? 
Wo caps me likhke Highlight karna jaruri tha kya? pic.twitter.com/TBuILvL9az

— Rheað¥ð¥ (@iRheasingh) July 15, 2018

With all due respect to you, that was an uncalled for statement. May be their forefathers were African, but they all were FRENCH.
Scientifically even our forefathers were AFRICAN as that's where Homo sapiens evolved 300,000 years ago.
Thanks,
A big fan of yours.

— Kshitij Mohan (@MohanKshitij) July 15, 2018

It's wrong for you to be saying this. There are several other players born in France with roots in African countries who went back to play for their own country.
They won as a team, lost as a team. They're French,not Africans.

— Ameya Raje (@ameyaraje) July 15, 2018

Amidst this whole debate of nationalism and integrating immigrants in a nation, some users did laud his thought and statement, but by and large majority of his fans were not amused.

They could only win because they consider France as their nation. Why r we dividing them ?? Let us keep the spirit of game and not these divisions .....

— anisha (@Anishakapoor90) July 15, 2018

Your messages in public domain clearly tending to a certain ideology. And hope we can know the truth some day.

For now, it is unfortunate that instead of admiring a nation for wholly integrating refugees and migrants, you have made fun of them. T2868 is definitely in bad taste.

— Rajesh Soundararajan (@rajeshsound) July 16, 2018

On that note, if you were also humming Shakira's anthem, here's some nostalgia alert for you:

In Shakira's melodious voice, 'This time for Africa'! (oops, France we mean).