2023-11-21 02:21:47
A speech that will not go unnoticed. Pablo Longoria, president of OM, declared Monday that he wanted the Marseille-Lyon match, postponed to December 6 after serious incidents causing the injury of Lyon coach Fabio Grosso, to be able to be played “at the Vélodrome with full of people.
As a reminder, Lyon’s visit to Marseille on October 29, in the championship, was marred by serious incidents, causing the match to be postponed. The bus carrying Lyon players and staff was stoned a few hundred meters from the stadium. The OL coach was seriously injured in the face.
The Professional Football League then rescheduled the match for December 6, in Marseille and with the public. The Lyon club appealed this decision and the appeal committee of the French Football Federation will consider its request this Tuesday.
“We must all work together so that safety is the priority”
“If security is guaranteed, we must maintain the sporting fairness of the championship, that all teams play under the same conditions. We must respect the sporting fairness of the championship and for that, we must play at the Vélodrome with a full audience,” declared Pablo Longoria, interviewed on the sidelines of the signing of a partnership between OM and the Provence-Alpes region. French Riviera.
“We condemned these deplorable and unacceptable acts from the first second. We took a very firm position,” he added before continuing. “We must gain height, we must not defend individual positions. If we do that, get into individual battles between clubs, we will never make progress on the security issues that we see everywhere in football and not just in Marseille. It’s a common fight. »
“I would like there to still be the conditions which allow OM supporters to go outside and those of other clubs to come to the Vélodrome. We play football to put on a show in which everyone can participate,” the Spanish leader further declared. “We are all responsible for ensuring that this can be done in the best conditions. We must all work together so that safety is the priority in all L1 and L2 clubs,” he concluded.
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