Nice defender Youcef Atal spoke to his loved ones after relaying a hateful message on social networks.
Youcef Atal has just been fired by OGC Nice. Under pressure from politicians, the Riviera club decided to sanction its player after he was guilty of slipping up on social networks.
Atal wanted to calm the debates
Consciously or unconsciously, the Algerian international shared an anti-Semitic message where a preacher prays to God so that all Jews are “stricken with a black day”. Although he subsequently deleted the video and apologized, the former Kortrijk man did not escape popular vindictiveness.
In Algeria, his admirers and also fans of the selection wonder why their representative was not defended by the federation. Why did no one lift a finger to protect him from external attacks and denounce in particular the slanderous articles against him. The answer is simple; it’s because he himself asked for it.
According to the media Ennahar, Atal asked the FAF but also the coach Djamel Belmadi not to intervene on this subject so as not to fuel the controversy and thus provoke an escalation. He thought he could quickly move on to something else. In vain. His situation has gotten worse and he finds himself more isolated than ever. Rumors suggest that he could even be fired by the Gym in the coming days.
