PSG: the association of Leagues denounces the behavior of Parisian supporters

Just over four months after the incredible rally of PSG supporters at the foot of the Auteuil turn during the 8th final of the Champions League return between PSG and Dortmund (2-0), a new controversy was invited to the following the return of the capital's club to its den of the Parc des Princes on Friday against Waasland-Beveren.

The National Association of Professional Sports Leagues (ANLSP) deplored, this Saturday, the non-compliance with health regulations by some Parisian supporters during the friendly match of PSG against the Belgians (7-0), 24 hours earlier. During this match disputed in front of 5,000 spectators as the government authorizes for the moment due to the health crisis, some Parisian supporters - about a thousand - arm in arm, arm in arm for more than an hour, have drawn lightnings many observers by not respecting social distancing protocols, barrier gestures and wearing a mask.

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These behaviors strongly displeased while the leaders of the various sports plead for an increase in the size of the spectators in the enclosures. “Professional leagues have developed strict and precise health protocols for returning to competitions with the public. The local action of some supporters should not jeopardize the process of the return of the public and penalize all professional competitions of the different disciplines and their audiences, says the ANLSP, which brings together the Leagues of football, rugby, cycling, basketball, hand and volleyball. The behavior of a few must not question everything, including to their own detriment, and jeopardize the survival of an entire economic sector. "

The wrath of Paul Goze

The Association of Leagues "calls all spectators and groups of supporters to responsibility and respect for health instructions" and advocates, if health protocols are not respected by "a minority of individuals on a minority of matches ”, to put in place“ targeted measures limited to the matches concerned ”.

Paul Goze, the president of the Rugby League, went even further by splitting a letter to the Minister responsible for Sports, Roxana Maracineanu, to express his anger, his dismay and his concern faced with these acts deemed irresponsible. The president of the LNR fears that many clubs, and in particular the rugby clubs, whose resources depend largely on the organization of the matches, will be penalized. These images have also cringe at the Ministry of Sports, reports RMC Sport, citing the entourage of the minister who incites everyone to responsibility.

If the French Football Federation did not wish to comment, the Professional Football League expressed itself through the voice of its president Nathalie Boy de la Tour. “I appeal to the responsibility of everyone, especially the fan groups. The joy of finding the way to the stadium should in no case make you forget the strict respect for health regulations, insists the president of the LFP. The virus is still circulating. If we want to return to the stadiums in large numbers at the start of the school year, we must all show responsibility. "