Vanessa Le Moigne said stop. The BeIN Sports journalist, main presenter of the channel during the last African Cup of Nations, announced that she wanted to stop covering football for her employer. At issue: a wave of harassment and insulting messages suffered on social networks since the final of the continental competition won by Senegal against Morocco on Sunday January 18 (1-0 ap), which she covered on site for BeIN.
As a reminder, the 40-year-old journalist was the target of numerous attacks for her interview conducted alongside Édouard Mendy, the goalkeeper of the Lions of Teranga, just after the meeting. “I hesitate to say congratulations, I will let you comment on everything that happened at the end, it’s dramatic,” she told the Al-Ahli player before asking him if an arrangement had been negotiated with Brahim Diaz so that the Moroccan midfielder voluntarily missed his penalty in added time.
On Instagram, during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, the 40-year-old journalist relayed some of these insulting messages before justifying herself. “At that time, I don’t know if the two young people I saw coming out on a stretcher, inanimate, are alive,” she said, referring to the clashes between Moroccan stewards and Senegalese supporters that broke out at the end of regulation time. “I’m not talking about football. Speculations about an arrangement 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 on the lookout for the slightest twist of tongue…”
In addition to a lack of context on the part of her detractors, Vanessa Le Moigne also denounces a lack of support from the profession. “That the supporters don’t understand, that’s ok,” she said in the story. “But my friends, my peers who have been on the lookout for my slightest slip of the tongue for years: they are visibly better. Without a doubt! I leave room for them. »
Also in charge of presenting the big matches in Ligue 2, a competition owned by BeIN Sports, the host confirmed her intention to “finish the season”. “Ligue 2 doesn’t need me but I finish what I started and then I do something else. If there is something else to do,” she said before specifying that she would hold her place during the match between Guingamp and Troyes on Saturday January 24 at 2 p.m.
“Thank you football for the meetings… for the beautiful moments. But next. End of season, I stop and now I feel liberated. You will no longer have my back,” wrote the journalist, making it clear on her X account that she was not stopping “her job” but only following football.
