Kita-Longoria, war is declared

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By: Manu Tournoux

It was back to school this Monday for the Board of Directors of the Professional Football League (LFP). A fortiori for a Pablo Longoria suspended almost nine months for having lost its nerves last January after a championship match lost by its OM in Auxerre.

That evening, the president of the Marseille club had yelled at corruption, dissatisfied with the performance of the arbitral body. A behavior deemed scandalous by the boss of FC Nantes, Waldemar Kita, who this Monday gave a layer when his Marseille counterpart resumed his functions as vice-president of the LFP.

“” You are not ashamed, who are you to say that? “, Kita has been at the place of Longoria, according to a source cited by RMC emphasizing the tone” very offensive »From Haut-Dirigeant Nantes. The latter even went so far as to call the first Olympian ambassador to resignation.

Kita, a new support for Labrune

Why such aggressiveness? Because the management of OM, storing in the opinion of its main shareholder Frank McCourt, changed its rifle recently as for the governance of the LFP. Pablo Longoria, thus, joined the boss of RC Lens Joseph Oughourlian in the camp of dissidents decided to overthrow the president of the League Vincent Labrune.

For the time being, this perspective remains illusory since the board of directors welcomed three new members acquired these days to the cause of the manager in place: Fabrice Bocquet (Nice), Loïc Féry (Lorient) and… Waldemar Kita. This in particular at the expense of a fierce opponent of the current regime, Le Havre Jean-Michel Roussier.