It is a late response and a violent charge that Patrice Evra reserves for Noël Le Graët.
Two weeks ago, the president of the French Football Federation (FFF) reacted to Neymar's accusations of racism against Marseillais Alvaro by minimizing the problems of racism in football "The racist phenomenon in sport, and in football in particular, does not exist or little, had estimated the boss of football tricolor at the microphone of BFM Business.
When a Black scores a goal, the whole stadium is standing ”.
An exit which had provoked strong reactions.
That of the former captain of the France team is even more vehement.
It is in a long video of eight minutes posted on Instagram as he is used to that the defender with the 81 selections denounced the words of the French leader.
"Christmas, you know very well what is happening at the castle
(Editor's note: in Clairefontaine)
, all the racist letters we receive:
Didier takes back your monkeys and goes back to Africa, get out with your monkeys and gorillas,
assures Evra.
We hide them so that the players don't see them, but I've seen some of them.
We even get boxes full of poop.
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The former Manchester United captain, who in this video multiplies the gibes at the place of Noël Le Graët, also ensures that the protocol was also jostled at Clairefontaine when political figures visited the Blues.
“When we eat, we have assigned seats, we are used to sitting next to a guy because we have good relations, explains Evra.
Every time the president came, everything changed.
I was setting there and suddenly I was at the end of the table.
Where normally, there was Mamadou Sakho or Bacary Sagna, a lot of sombritude
(sic)
, it was necessary to change.
We put a Hugo Lloris and a Laurent Koscielny and the president in the middle.
We knew it, it was the rules of the game, we are in France, we are not at home.
But when there was a photo of the president, it was better to see a Hugo Lloris or a Laurent Koscielny than a Bacary Sagna or a Mamadou Sakho.
"
"Aren't you going to have the courage to represent yourself?"
An anecdote that seems to refer to the visit of François Hollande in May 2014 before the departure of the France team for the World Cup in Brazil.
The president was then seated at the table between Captain Hugo Lloris and Laurent Koscielny.
A choice then justified by the Corrèze origin of the defender of Bordeaux who knows and addresses François Hollande when he was mayor of Tulle.
Very upset against Le Graët, Patrice Evra evokes the next federal elections: “You are not going to have the courage to represent yourself?
»He asks while the current president has not announced if he is running for a new term.
The finalist of Euro 2016 concludes by issuing a call in the form of a threat: “Especially the French players do not like this video, if not more selection.
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