racist scandal of the PSG coach

12/04/2023

Updated at 2:31 p.m.

French football comes out of one scandal to get into another. If a few months ago a sexual scandal led to the resignation of the then president of the French Football Federation (FFF)Noël Le Graët, now some alleged statements racists of the technician of the PSG, Christophe Galtier, they have put him on the trigger and would have caused Nasser Al-Khelaifi, president of the Parisian club, to open an investigation. According to RMC Sports, if the information is confirmed, Galtier would be suddenly fired.

According to information revealed on the television program ‘After foot’ (RMC Sports) by the journalist Romain Molina, Julien Fournierformer director of A stringwould have accused the current Paris Saint Germain coach of making controversial racist statements about several of his footballers during his time at the helm of the Nice bench in 2021.

According to Romain Molina, Fournier would have accused Galtier through an email of stating that “we could not have so many blacks and Muslims on the team”, adding that the aforementioned technician complained that “he went to a restaurant and everyone was he threw on him assuring that the team was full of blacks», something that «did not correspond to the city or what people asked for».

“Half of your team is in the mosque”

However, the most controversial statements came from the Galtier’s son, Johnwho complained to Fournier that in Nice “there are only blacks and half of your team is in the mosque on Friday afternoons…”, to which the former sports director replied emphatically “that he was outraged by his comments and asked him to leave my office immediately.”


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