“It is an Argentinian who does not swim well, Emiliano underwater”, sang Wednesday part of the Nice audience around the 9th minute, parodying the song that the Nantes supporters set in every game to this match minute.
Le Monde with AFP
The OGC Nice condemned “with the greatest firmness”, Wednesday May 11 in the evening, the song of his supporters mocking Emiliano Sala, the former Argentinian striker of FC Nantes who died in a plane crash in 2019.
The Nice and Nantes coaches, Christophe Galtier and Antoine Kombouaré, also expressed their indignation after this song heard at the Allianz Riviera, during the late match of the Aiglons against AS Saint-Etienne (4-2 ).
The OGC Nice “in no way recognizes its values or those of the whole of the Red and Black family in this unthinkable and abject provocation of a minority of its supporters,” said the club in a press release, in Bringing “his support for the family and relatives of Emiliano Sala”.
Christophe Galtier apologized to the family of Emiliano Sala and FC Nantes, “In the name of [his] players, technical, medical staff”:
“I have no words to qualify what we heard. Upon returning to the locker room, there was no cries, joy … but stupor. We can hear a lot in A football stadium. But there, where insults come from a deceased footballer. They came from a few people, but they were not only three. But they stay at home with their bottles and Their insults. If that’s our society, we are in shit. “
” it’s shameful “
“Human bullshit has no limit, I am scandalized,” added Nantes coach Antoine Kombouaré, interviewed in the mixed zone after the Canaries’ victory against Rennes (2-1) in the evening in Nantes :
“These guys have nothing to do in a stadium. It would be necessary to ban them, really. It’s shameful. I have trouble for Emiliano’s family. I knew that the supporters could be violent, idiots, but there … “
Emiliano Sala died in January 2019, at the age of 28, when the small private plane which brought him back to Cardiff, where he had just been transferred for 17 million euros, was damaged in the Manche.
“It is an Argentinian who does not swim well, Emiliano underwater”, sang a part of the Nice audience around the 9 e minute, parodying the song (“C ‘is an Argentinian, he does not let go, Emiliano Sala “) that the Nantes supporters sing each match at this minute.
Usually, it is not uncommon for opposing supporters to join singing in homage to the old n o 9. The Nantes had sang it on Saturday at the Stade de France during From the French Cup final won 1-0 by the Canaries in front of the Aiglons.
On Wednesday, the Nice audience also launched insults towards Stéphanie Fropart, the final referee, guilty in their eyes of having granted an imaginary penalty to the Nantes.