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Has Paul Pogba allegedly quit international football over 'Islamist terrorism' remark by French President?

According to multiple recent reports, Paul Pogba has opted to quit international football over France President Emmanuel Macron's latest comments.

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France's World Cup-winning star Paul Pogba has reportedly decided to quit International football in response to French President Emmanuel Macron's recent comments on 'Islamist terrorist attack', after an incident.

As per the reports from the Arabic new outlet 195sport.com, Pogba made his call on the back of Macron's comments on Friday.

But from where did this entire thing found momentum?

A middle school history teacher in France was knifed to death near the school where earlier this month he had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, considered blasphemous by Muslims, French officials said on Friday.

The attacker was shot dead by a police patrol a few streets away from the scene of the attack late on Friday afternoon, in a residential suburb north-west of Paris.

"One of our fellow citizens was assassinated today because he was teaching, he was teaching pupils about freedom of expression," French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters at the scene of the attack.

"Our compatriot was flagrantly attacked, was the victim of an Islamist terrorist attack," Macron further said.

"They won't win... We will act. Firmly, And quickly. You can count on my determination," he added.

Coming back to the Paul Pogba reports, neither the French Football Federation nor the Manchester United midfielder himself has officially announced anything so far.

Paul was allegedly upset with President Macron's remarks and considered those comments as an insult towards him and to French Muslims, as Islam is the second religion in France after Christianity.

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