“I think the situation is sad, very serious. I learned that after the match against Canada, we were all a little shocked in the locker room. This is the sad reality of our society. We need to tell everyone to go and vote. Especially as a citizen, we must fight on a daily basis so that the RN does not pass. Do we talk about it in the group? I hope everyone shares my opinion, it’s not enough to say that we have to go and vote, we have to explain how we got there”. On Saturday, at a press conference, Marcus Thuram called for a barrier against the National Rally.
Earlier in the week, being a little less explicit, Ousmane Dembélé had already encouraged the French to go to the polls for the legislative elections at the end of the month and beginning of July. Clearly, it is a subject that worries and causes internal discussion during this internship, where everything that is happening in the country logically follows. As revealed The Teamthe team’s players followed Thuram’s intervention and discussed this subject extensively during lunch yesterday.
The FFF in favor of freedom of expression
As for the staff, the desire is not to intervene or give instructions to the players, who are therefore free to express their feelings and opinions as they wish during their media interventions. They don’t want to prevent players from expressing what’s on their hearts. In the group, whether among the players or among the technical staff, there is therefore no problem with Thuram’s exit or with other possible positions taken in the future. And what about the FFF then? Well the Federation also seems to give players the choice to express themselves freely.
However, according to the sports daily, the Federation was already aware that the journalists were going to question the players on this subject and had taken precautions in advance. It set up, with Orange, “a process which allows us to clean up the social networks of the Blues”. And this is to avoid a flood of insults and violent comments from individuals who do not agree with the positions expressed by the players. Philippe Diallo also spoke with Mbappé and Griezmann to confirm that the players can speak without constraints or instructions, but that he wanted to avoid this turning into political exploitation. Freedom of expression supported in the press release published by the FFF in the evening. Measures which therefore guarantee players the possibility of speaking, while trying to ensure that this disrupts this Euro 2024 as little as possible.
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