2023-11-30 23:41:09
Giovanni Habel-Küffner rarely goes unnoticed. The 3rd center line of Stade Français is a solid 28-year-old who has gotten into the habit of dyeing his hair in the colors of his club, showing off a mop of hair that is all pink or even half pink and half blue, like since the lost derby against Racing (13-9) twelve days ago at the Jean-Bouin stadium. But it’s seeing red that’s causing him new worries today. During the night from Saturday to Sunday, after a defeat in Pau (30-6), the player allegedly hit a member of the staff of the Pau Section in the face for no apparent reason during a drunken evening in a nightclub. of the Béarnaise city.
The gesture, obviously, did not go through and the capital club recognized, in a press release this Thursday morning, the altercation “between one of its players and a member of the Pau staff”, revealed by the newspaper L’Equipe, announcing in immediately that sanctions would be taken. The question of dismissal now arises for Giovanni Habel-Küffner in a context where seven other players and two members of the management have, like him, ignored the refusal of the staff to their request to leave and incur more penalties. light.
“This ban was perhaps a little exaggerated,” confides a person close to the players. They are taken for children. They didn’t have to go out of their way, but it’s not a matter of state. The punch, on the other hand, is much more annoying. This affects the image of the club. He is obliged to sanction him but will he dismiss his only real number 8, very important on the pitch? » President-owner Hans-Peter Wild, currently in the United States, will return on Sunday to attend the Stade Français – Toulouse match at Jean-Bouin in the evening. He will quickly settle the question but the thorn in the side of the duo Laurent Labit – Karim Ghezal, who arrived a month ago just after the World Cup at the helm of a team then at the top of the Top 14, is already painful.
Especially since it concerns an endearing player, born to a Samoan father and a German mother, having spent his youth in New Zealand before joining the Pau training center in 2015, where he acquired nationality. French. He had also already experienced some alcohol-related problems. Giovanni Habel-Küffner was sentenced in February 2019 to two months in prison and a fine of 1,000 euros for contempt and rebellion after insulting police officers and refusing to follow them to the police station while he was making a scene, drunk, at the at the bottom of a building, having rang a wrong number on the intercom while he was looking to sleep at a friend’s house.
“He has integrated very well, he does a lot of good for the group,” Gonzalo Quesada, the manager who brought him to Paris last season, said of him a year ago. His future in the capital now seems more than uncertain.
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