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The emotion and the strong words of Christophe Galtier: "France is bruised"

2020-10-29T23:50:54.301Z


The Lille coach expressed his pain and offered his condolences "to those close to those who were cowardly murdered today" after his team's victory in the European Cup.


It is in an inevitably heavy climate that life takes its course in the four corners of France this Thursday, after the attack perpetrated in Nice earlier in the day.

Not to mention the health crisis and the containment measures that will govern the daily life of the French for (at least) the next four weeks ...

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A situation that touched Christophe Galtier to the heart.

"France is bruised ... France is bruised, first repeated the coach of Lille, visibly very moved at a press conference, after the draw of his men and Celtic (2-2) in the Europa League.

Even if it's not much, I wanted to offer my condolences to the families, to the friends, to the relatives of the people who were cowardly murdered today, in a church, women, a man.

If we can bring, somewhere, games and shows, since we are allowed to continue playing, emotions… Believe me, it was a difficult day on a personal level.

If I had been able to abstain from working, I would have abstained from working, because apart from the health crisis, to live such moments in our country, in our beautiful country, believe me that it is very difficult . "

"France is bruised. Believe me that it was a difficult day on a personal level. If I had been able to abstain from working, I would have abstained"



The palpable emotion and the strong words of Christophe Galtier after the attack which claimed the lives of three people in Nice.

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- RMC Sport (@RMCsport) October 29, 2020

And the northerner technician - he was born in Marseille - concluded: "And once again, all my support for the families and relatives of people ... cowardly murdered, and also to the people of Nice, it is a city that is often the target of 'attacks.'

Note that Nice was also playing this Thursday, and the Gym beat Beer-Sheva (1-0).

Vieira: "Football is obviously secondary tonight"

A few hours after the attack which struck Nice and made three victims, the Eaglets of Patrick Vieira faced the Israelis of Hapoel Beer-Sheva this Thursday evening, during the second day of the group stage of the Europa League.

Match at the end of which the coach of the Aiglons published this emotional message on social networks: “Football is obviously secondary tonight.

But it was important to us to play, and even more to win to pay tribute to Our City, once again touched by the tragedy.

Sincere thoughts to the victims, their families and loved ones, we will not forget. ”

For the anecdote, the players of Coach Vieira won against this Israeli club (1-0), their first of the season in C3, with a goal from Amine Gouiri.

Football is obviously secondary tonight.

But it was important to us to play, and even more to win to pay tribute to Our City, once again touched by the tragedy.

Sincere thoughts to the victims, their families and loved ones, we will not forget.

# Nissapic.twitter.com / bderQTD7Vx

- Patrick Vieira (@OfficialVieira) October 29, 2020

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