Each year the Professional Football League encourages footballers to advocate tolerance and to fight against discrimination, notably sporting the colors of the rainbow, symbol of the LGBT community. This season, on May 17, International Day to Combat Homophobia, coincided with the last championship lifting. The opportunity to mark the occasion.
This time no question of rainbow flocking or dedicated armband; The LFP had limited the symbol to a rainbow drawn on the Ligue 1 logo appearing on the sleeve of the jerseys. A relatively discreet sign that players from the elite wanted to hide, via white scotch ribbons.
If the gesture went unnoticed or almost during the evening, the scandal broke out this Sunday. Lyonnais Nemanja Matic and Le Havre Ahmed Hassan, both who came into play during the meeting, were thus taken by the a posteriori patrol.
The Minister of Sports accuses
For having also masked the rainbow flag on his jersey last season, the Monegasque Mohamed Camara had received a suspension of four suspension matches. Another case, another passive, that of the Nantais Mostafa Mohamed, who for the third consecutive year decided to boycott the event purely and simply.
This Sunday, the Minister of Sports Marie Barsacq formally condemned this attitude, thus relayed by Le Parisien: “ I denounce the position of this player. There is no excuse not to mobilize and denounce homophobia in sport and in football in particular. It is a professional fault. It is also a moral fault, it is important to say it. »»
