From Prime Minister to ... sports commentator! Édouard Philippe was at the Océane stadium on Sunday evening to attend the friendly match between Le Havre (HAC) and Paris Saint-Germain (0-9). The event was eagerly awaited since, for the first time since the coronavirus crisis, 5,000 people were allowed to go to the podium. At half-time, the former head of government, who has become mayor of Le Havre since he left Matignon, agreed to be the “luxury consultant” of beIN Sports, and to revert to the goals of the first period . It was thus his first television intervention since his resignation on July 3. 'You can call me' Mr. the mayor 'or you can call me' Edward '... It will last longer! ”laughed on the edge of the field the former Prime Minister, visibly relaxed.
Not a word of politics
"It's a bit hard for both teams, but it's especially hard for the HAC," admitted Edouard Philippe, while the club in his city was already led five goals to zero at halftime. The former prime minister notably returned to the performance of Kylian Mbappé, the young tri-color world champion and star attacker of PSG. “We don't have the impression that it's his recovery. He is going fast and, even when one has the impression that he is going fast, he finds the resource to accelerate. It is fascinating, it does not give the impression of forcing, it just gives the impression of not being done like the others, " he hailed.
The mayor of Le Havre also explained that he thought that football was "an extraordinary game" , that he also took "an extraordinary foot" to play it. “The only thing that annoys me in football is when the good spirit is lost, when we are on violence or on the stuffy. But if not, it's an extraordinary game , "he said.
Perhaps should we see in this declaration of love by Edouard Philippe a hand extended to all football fans, with whom he would like to be reconciled? It was he who, when he was Prime Minister, announced on April 28 in the National Assembly that the championships could not resume. An episode on which he did not return in front of the cameras of beIN Sports. No more than any other political subject ...
