2023-10-12 00:47:10
Targeted by a preliminary investigation and deprived of the bench for racist remarks towards his players, Bernard Casoni does not intend to remain inactive. According to information from The teamthe former OM international defender, 62, will file a complaint this Wednesday for slanderous denunciation.
“I am touched and hurt because it is not the truth,” he explained on RMC Tuesday evening. It’s not easy but we will fight to have my honor cleared. »
Casoni admitted to having made the remarks cited by France Bleu Orléans, some of which were recorded at a press conference: “You are no more stupid than North Africans”. However, he denied the insulting, discriminatory or racist nature of the latter. “The Maghreb were my last clubs,” he recalled. Everywhere I went, I put principles in place. So it worked there, as it worked in all the Maghreb countries I have visited. So I said that what I had put in place there, I was capable of putting it in place in Orléans. These are somewhat vague sentences. It’s as if I had coached in Canada and said: We’re not stupider than Canadians.
????️???? “They are using this to attack me, because there are people I have questioned in the club”
Bernard Casoni denounces a plot by several players to harm him. pic.twitter.com/GhCTVeXnwv
— Rothen s’enflamme (@Rothensenflamme) October 10, 2023
At the head of the Orléans team (17th and penultimate in National after nine days, but with a match late) since June, Casoni took the revelations of France Bleu Orléans in the face on Monday.
The radio, citing several players and members of the club, specifies that he made other comments of the same nature on several occasions. This includes players not needing bibs in training because they are already black, a fart released during play in the locker room being described as a “black fart”, or even a squad “to be cleared” .
Trained in Cannes, passed through Toulon and Matra Racing in Paris, Casoni ended his career as a central defender at OM Bernard Tapie, where he played from 1990 to 1996, playing more than 200 matches with two titles to his name. champion of France (1991, 1992) and a Champions League (1993).
Having made 30 caps for the French team between 1998 and 1992, he then became a coach. After a brief stint at OM, he notably brought Evian Thonon Gaillard up from National to Ligue 2, then from Ligue 2 to Ligue 1 between 2010 and 2012, before managing Lorient or Valenciennes.
He also gained experience in foreign clubs, including several in the Maghreb or Qatar, before taking charge of the US Orléans team in June.
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