two Ligue 1 players refuse the rainbow jersey

2023-05-14 17:59:00

Players Zakaria Aboukhlal and Mostafa Mohamed have refused to wear the rainbow colored jersey, as the campaign against homophobia is held.

By MR with AFP

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On the occasion of the annual campaign “Gays or heterosexuals, we all wear the same jersey”, all L1 and L2 players are wearing a flocked jersey in the colors of the rainbow this weekend. (Illustrative photo).
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Published on 05/14/2023 at 5:59 p.m.

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Cn Sunday, May 14, the Ligue 1 match takes place between Toulouse Football Club and Football Club de Nantes. While all football players must wear the rainbow colors, on the occasion of the campaign against homophobia, many of them will not tread the grass this weekend. Zakaria Aboukhlal (Toulouse) and Mostafa Mohamed (Nantes) have indeed refused to wear the rainbow flocked jersey.

The Moroccan Aboukhlal, regular holder, does not play because he refuses to wear this jersey, according to The Midi Dispatch, who had also announced that Logan Costa and Farès Chaïbi did not want it either, when they are well on the score sheet. The Egyptian Mohamed does not want to wear this jersey in LGBT colors either, we learned from a source close to the club.

On Saturday, the Senegalese defender of Guingamp Donatien Gomis also preferred to forfeit the Ligue 2 match at Sochaux so as not to participate in the campaign against homophobia, we learned from the club.

A charitable action

On the occasion of the annual campaign “Gays or heterosexuals, we all wear the same jersey”, all L1 and L2 players wear this weekend a flocked jersey in the colors of the rainbow, which also adorn captain’s armbands. These jerseys must then be auctioned off for the benefit of the Foot Ensemble, PanamBoyz & Girlz United and SOS Homophobia associations.

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Last year, another Senegalese, the international Idrissa Gana Gueye, then midfielder for PSG and today at Everton, had already been strongly suspected of having withdrawn for not wearing this jersey. He had been summoned to explain himself by the National Ethics Council (CNE) of the French Football Federation (FFF), a body which nevertheless has no disciplinary power. The player had received a flood of support in Senegal.