Strange season for AS Saint-Étienne. In sporting trouble, 18th in Ligue 2 and already eliminated from the Coupe de France after their defeat on October 29 against Rodez, the Greens experienced a new mishap, extra-sporting this time, with their striker Charles Abi. According to information from Progrès, the club laid off its young player (22) and seized the LFP legal committee after he was involved in a car accident… in a drunken state.
Facts that took place, according to the newspaper, last October 16 in the morning, “just before entering the training center” of the Greens. Abi crashed into an electricity pylon, and “alcohol tests carried out on the day of the accident by the Greens’ reserve team doctor came back positive”, writes the newspaper. In the vehicle, a passenger is also drunk.
The native of Clermont-Ferrand had not yet played a single match this season and was even training with the reserve after a complicated transfer window. Hope of the Saint-Etienne formation, winner of the Gambardella Cup in 2019 in the same generation as William Saliba or Wesley Fofana, he has struggled to turn a corner in recent seasons and would be “unhappy, even bordering on depressed at times” , writes Progress, citing the entourage of the player. “For a week now, the Stéphanois striker has no longer had the right to enter the sports center”, specifies the daily.