Patrick Vieira said about Emi Martinez: "When you are talking about the abuse and the comments that he [Mbappe] received after the World Cup, I think that is damaging the game and himself.
"Some of the pictures that I saw from the Argentina goalkeeper took away a little bit from what Argentina achieved at the World Cup.
"I don’t think that they really needed that. You can’t control sometimes people’s emotions or decisions, but that was a stupid decision from Martinez to do that."
Argentina triumphed over France on penalties in last Sunday’s final in Qatar, with the South American nation revelling in their glory – a bit too much for some people.
Martinez has come under a lot of scrutiny in particular, especially after he was seen with a toy baby with Mbappe’s face on during the open-top bus parade in Buenos Aires.
The 30-year-old had previously mocked the France forward directly after the final, when he called for a minute’s silence for the PSG star while his team partied in the dressing room.
