At the heart of the turmoil after the revelations made around the testimonies of former players and collaborators of OGC Nice, Christophe Galtier saw Andy Delort come to his support.
“ The worst are the Algerians “, ” Another Muslim, I don’t want one, we’ve had enough”, “They’re King Kong”… The comments attributed to Christophe Galtier by his former collaborators during their hearings by the investigators in charge of the Galtier affair, opened after the accusations made by Julien Fournier, former sports director of OGC Nice, are edifying.
The former Aiglons coach can nevertheless count on some support, like Andy Delort, who stepped up to the plate at RMC. “ When there was the war between Fournier and Galtier, that’s where this affair started. From one day to the next, there hadn’t been too many… Honestly, I never heard Christophe Galtier (make racist or discriminatory remarks, Editor’s note), and yet I did the entire season, and I given all the comments that have come out, launched the one whose interests are managed by John Valovic-Galtier, the adopted son of the former midfielder.
And the Algerian international provided a clarification. “ I just have an anecdote that I experienced and which was reported differently (in the press). It was a day when we were playing away in Clermont or Lorient, I don’t remember where. It was a match around 3 p.m. Coach Galtier had asked those who were celebrating Ramadan to get up at 5 a.m. or 5:30 a.m. to go with the dietician who had prepared a meal to eat since we were playing at 1 p.m. or 3 p.m. I think it was at 1 p.m. Hichem Boudaoui, and he is my friend, is the only one who did not get up, he said. He arrived directly at the snack bar at 10:30 a.m. The dietitian said he didn’t get up so the coach made the decision not to start him. Which may be understandable at this point. And in the articles we saw that Galtier had refused to play Boudaoui because he was celebrating Ramadan. It hadn’t happened like that. There are lots of things…”
