The case made as much noise as Pablo Longoria in the corridors of Father-Deschamps. On February 22, at the end of a defeat of Olympique de Marseille on the lawn of Auxerre (3-0), the president of the southern club exploded and yelled his anger. On several occasions, he thus targeted arbitration with “corruption” shouted with rage. An attitude which earned him the support of its president Frank McCourt, but not that of the disciplinary committee of the LFP. After a long suspension, he will however return to business.
The commission had struck hard. After an hour's audition, the latter had announced more than six months suspension for the Spanish leader. What to dismiss it from “All official functions and access to the sidelines, the locker rooms of players and officials, the field, the tunnel and all the corridors leading to these areas”as stipulated in the report issued after the sentence.
This Monday, the suspension of all official functions during fifteen games will expire and Pablo Longoria will therefore be able to reintegrate the board of directors of the Professional Football League of which he was one of the members until this guilty blood stroke.
Longoria, a week busy with OM
The council which meets for the first time since the general assembly last Wednesday during which Vincent Labrune was reinforced in his functions as boss of the LFP. The presidents of FC Nantes (Waldemar Kita), the OGC Nice (Fabrice Bocquet) and FC Lorient (Loïc Féry), had been elected to the council. All this against the backdrop of New Read of certain club presidents against Vincent Labrune.
Anyway, the week is therefore special for a Pablo Longoria which will also have another big meeting, this Tuesday, with the trip of OM on the field of Real Madrid, for the first match of Phocaeans in the League of the Champions League.
