Case of the "sailing tank", continuation and probably not end... Twenty-four after the extremely commented response of the Galtier-Mbappé duo on the plane / train match, the UNFP reacted in turn to castigate the recovery of the tirade awkward from the Parisian coach.
“SNCF's latest communication campaign is a success.
All it took was a tweet to shift the debate, forget the delays, the cancellations, in short everything that is so often the daily life of millions of users, to focus on the naughty footballers who do not take the train to go to Nantes, but the plane…, writes the national union of professional footballers in a press release.
It's better to laugh about it, yes.
And it is not because footballers, who are also conscious and respectful citizens, would make fun of ecology, but because it is simply ridiculous and tiring that they thus serve as scapegoats… ”
🚂 Footballers, conscious and respectful citizens, don't care about ecology, and it is, for @UNFP, ridiculous and tiring that they serve like scapegoats...
So, yes, it's better laugh about it...
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— UNFP (@UNFP) September 6, 2022
On a Galtier mode, the UNFP chose the field of irony to deplore the exacerbated criticism to which the players are subject.
“We no longer want to see them on the green grass, we no longer want them to play in the evening, but we want them to win, to give pleasure to their supporters, forced tomorrow – to dissipate noise pollution that they create in a stadium where they will no longer have access - to watch the matches at home in front of their TV… switched off.
It's not Versailles here!
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The pros' union highlights the constraints of the clubs to close the debate.
“Teams like Paris Saint-Germain and Marseille play every three days, sometimes outside France, time is short for them, they have to travel at night, when the trains, with very rare exceptions, sleep in the station where they enter today without even having whistled three times – all is lost!
-, like the referees when the end of the match came.
For the UNFP, this is over before it even started!
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The leaders of PSG themselves have hardly tasted the controversy launched by their coach.
The club studies each trip according to several criteria (the cost of the trip, the travel time, accessibility, security, potential disturbances to public order and the environmental aspect) and puts in competition the means of transport. .
In view of the various constraints, the plane or the bus are for the moment preferred to the train...
