Tribune. Since the recovery of the league 1 championship, scenes of violence are multiplying in stages. I was the most publicized victim, although I am not the only one to have been assaulted in a particularly loose and unacceptable way. I want to say that if I wanted to write this letter, it is not for a club communication or request. There is neither vice nor calculation on my part, I do not have the will to put pressure on anyone, I do not care about that, especially since I have no personal interest in this story .
I just want to try to bring a point of view. For I still remain the first victim of the incidents of Nice and Lyon [during a match in Nice, August 22, Dimitri Payet had received a bottle of water in the back, and a supporter had tried to hit him; In Lyon, a supporter of Olympique Lyonnais launched a bottle on his head], which gives me a little legitimacy. I would like the interdepartmental meeting on violence in stages [scheduled Thursday, December 16] is not without a future.
I will not redo the match of the Professional Football League Discipline Commission (LFP), we heard everything before, during and after. I want to stay worthy, unlike those who referred to the fact that after all, I should not be “so hurt as that”. Or, and they are sometimes the same, those who wanted me to resume my place on the ground after taking a bottle in the face.
In fact, I was as much wounded by the bottle only by the impression of being the person responsible for the violence and the judgment of the match. I say Stop! There are tired. I’m tired that everyone puts its grain of salt without bringing the beginning of a solution. Sorry, but it must be said, it is not the prefect on the ground, neither the prosecutor nor the delegate of the League, nor the presidents of Nice, Lyon or Marseille.
It’s the players, it’s we who moorflons. And in this case, it’s me who pulls the corners. I have to stop shooting them? Stop playing ? Tell me.
I’m surprised that the actors – the government, the league, the clubs – do not assume their responsibilities a little bit.
Football must rise up
It’s an unbearable form of collective resignation. I would like a reasonable collective responsibility. I would like to be considered primarily like a player who loves the game, gesture and beauty of this sport. I would like to be able to defend my idea of football on all the lawns of France without asking me questions, without fear of crossing the look or the gesture of hatred. We love football because it’s what unites us. Do not divide us because we wear the colors of a club. Football must rise, our league 1 is beautiful.
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