Christophe Galtier could not fully savor his first success in the Champions League of his career. From the end of the meeting (2-1, PSG – Juventus Turin) the Parisian coach made his mea culpa after his polemical sentence where he claimed with irony that his team was going to resort to “sailing” to move. The Paris SG coach made his mea culpa on Tuesday, saying he regretted “a joke that is in bad taste”. “Believe me that I am concerned about the problems of climate, of our planet, I know the responsibility that we have. We are not above ground, we are very lucid, simply, it’s a joke that comes at the wrong time, which is in bad taste, and I regret it”pleaded the technician at the microphone of Canal +.
PSG, its coach and superstar Kylian Mbappé found themselves under fire from critics after the offhand reactions of the technician and his player, Monday at a press conference, to a question about the club’s trip by plane to Nantes, a destination short for which less polluting alternatives, such as the train, exist.
“my joke was not great and I knew it quickly when I got home”
“It was not the moment”admitted Galtier. “It was a shoddy joke and not at the right time.” However, the technician defended the practices of his club, citing as an example a recent trip by road to go to Lille, and not by air. “I have players who are very careful about the climate, I have serious players, we have a club that is careful. We took 2 hours and 45 minutes by bus to go to Lille, 2 hours and 45 minutes by bus back, we are aware of the issues climate-wise”, he argued. Aware of having committed his first communication blunder since his appointment this summer, Galtier (56) nevertheless said he learned from it: “I think that in France, it’s no longer possible to be humorous… even if my joke was not great and I knew it quickly when I got home”he concluded.
With AFP