PSG: "I wish for France that Zidane comes to train a big French club", proclaims Emmanuel Macron

In an interview broadcast this June 8 on RMC, Emmanuel Macron spoke about sport.

He, the Olympique de Marseille fan, first raised the possibility of Zinedine Zidane joining the PSG bench.

In any case, he wants the 1998 world champion to come and continue his coaching career in France.

“I did not speak to Zinédine Zidane, said the President of the Republic.

But I have immense admiration for him, the player, the coach.

We really want to have, in the French championship, an athlete and a coach of this talent who has been able to bring back three major cups that we covet a lot for our clubs.

I wish for the influence of the French championship and for France that he comes back and that he comes to train a big French club, it would be great.

It is my role to say that France is a great sporting and footballing nation,

that there are great audiences who love this sport.

It is important for us that the best we have trained, who have sometimes shone internationally, can come back.

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“I was able to speak with Kylian Mbappé”

Regarding Kylian Mbappé, the president confirms that he spoke to him at length before the PSG striker made his decision to extend to Paris: “I was able to speak with Kylian Mbappé, but he makes his choice in conscience.

He has shown it, he is very mature, he is building his career and his commitment with a lot of sense of responsibility.

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🎙 Emmanuel Macron's foot call to Zidane exclusively on RMC.

💬 "We really want to have in the French championship a sportsman and a talented coach who has been able to bring back three big cups that we covet a lot for our clubs."

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– RMC Sport (@RMCsport) June 8, 2022

Two weeks after the violence at the Stade de France on the sidelines of the Champions League final, Emmanuel Macron also added: “I think transparency is very important.

We must and we can all improve.

This is what the Minister of Sports, the Minister of the Interior and the Prime Minister will do.

Reports will be made, we will also work with the federation, UEFA, to draw all the consequences of what we have just experienced.

More generally, this is the lesson I want to draw from everything that we have experienced recently and in recent years: sport is a wonderful discipline that is good for the body and the mind.

It is necessary to drive out incivility and violence from sport.

It is obviously necessary to prepare so that, in major events, there is no place for violence outside the stadium and in the stadium.

You have to be intractable in professional or amateur sport to say that hate speech, racism and homophobia have no place in stadiums.

None.

There is a very important work with the federations to be intractable, to be rigorous and prevent with the clubs and the supporters, to train the supporters, to change the mentality.

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“When you love a sport, you love the discipline that goes with it”

The President of the Republic continues: “From an early age, with school, sports clubs, federations, it must be said that when you love a sport, you love the discipline that goes with it.

When we shout, when we are violent, when we insult, when we make racist, anti-Semitic or homophobic remarks, we don't like sport.

This is not the value of sport.

The value of sport is to respect a referee, to respect his opponent, to know how to play with his teammates in a collective sport, to have group disciplines even in individual disciplines like judo.

That's sport, nothing else.

Sometimes, we lost it by considering that rites or habits could be taken and that we had tolerated.

No.

All those involved in sport must help us to no longer tolerate it.

We are intractable, we are all responsible,

and we will educate differently.

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