“End of season I’m stopping”: disgusted by the reactions after the CAN final, beIN Sports journalist Vanessa Le Moigne will no longer cover football
beIN Sports journalist Vanessa Le Moigne has announced her intention to no longer cover football at the end of the season. In question, messages received for his interview with Edouard Mendy after the stormy final of CAN 2025 between Senegal and Morocco on Sunday in Rabat. And the lack of support from his “peers.”
Disgusted. Vanessa Le Moigne no longer wants to cover football. For the journalist who works for beIN Sports, the numerous incidents that occurred during the CAN final on Sunday in Rabat, and the criticism that accompanied her interview with Edouard Mendy after Senegal’s victory against Morocco, pushed her to say stop at the end of the season.
Present on the lawn of the Prince Moulay Abdallah stadium alongside consultants from the Qatari channel, Vanessa Le Moigne was the target of violent criticism for having discussed with the Senegalese goalkeeper the violent clashes in the stands as well as the question of a possible arrangement regarding Brahim Diaz’s penalty. “At this moment, I don’t know if the two young people I saw taken out on a stretcher inanimate are alive,” she explains in an Instagram story. “I’m not talking about football. Speculations about arrangements for “peace” are circulating on the networks. I have to ask the questions and this question on the penalty so that THE answer from one of the actors exists.”
“My “peers” have been on the lookout for my slightest tongue twisting for years: they are visibly better”
If the journalist was hurt by the messages she received, she was more hurt by the lack of support from her corporation. “That the supporters don’t understand, that’s OK! But my friends, my “peers” who have been on the lookout for my slightest twist of tongues for years: they are visibly better. Without a doubt!” And Vanessa Le Moigne announced her desire to throw in the towel: “I’ll leave it to them… I’m not Joan of Arc. After a month of sacrificing my vile family, after years even of sacrificing my personal life. Stop! Take the seat and what goes with it.”
“I feel liberated”
For the beIN Sports journalist, covering football is almost over: “Thank you football for the meetings… for the beautiful moments but next. End of season, I’m stopping and now I feel liberated.” Vanessa Le Moigne specifies that she will be present until the end of the season, in particular to cover the Ligue 2 championship. “I finish what I started and then I do something else. If there is something else to do.” And to conclude, with humor, that she would take Panenka’s attempt on Saturday during Guingamp-Troyes “as a provocation”.
Contacted by RMC Sport, Vanessa Le Moigne did not wish to speak publicly. As for beIN Sports, the channel indicates “that it does not comment on the individual comments of (its) collaborators on their social networks. We condemn with the greatest firmness, today as in the past, all forms of attacks targeting beIN Sports collaborators.”
Auteur: RMC Sport
Published on: Thursday January 22, 2026
