The coach of the French football team Didier Deschamps judged this Wednesday “unacceptable and intolerable“Kurt Zouma’s attitude. A video showing him hitting his cat has been a scandal for a few days. “It is of an unspeakable cruelty of course. I’m sure he realized it but these images are shocking and unbearable“said Deschamps, who was speaking on France 3 following the Nice-Marseille Coupe de France match on Wednesday evening.
The future of the defender of the Blues compromised in the French team
The coach did not say whether or not he would continue to call on the West Ham defender for the Blues’ next matches : “JI am not a prosecutor. I’m here to make selections based on different criteria. It may have happened to me when players may have made mistakes not selecting them for a while, so I won’t change my approach for the next list.“.
Deschamps had stopped retaining Karim Benzema for some time due to the attacker’s involvement in the Mathieu Valbuena sextape affair, before calling him back. France will play their next match, a friendly, on March 25 in Marseille against Ivory Coast.
The controversy is growing in England
The controversy escalated on Wednesday also in England: nearly 200,000 people demanded legal action, Zouma’s cats were taken away from him and Adidas terminated its contract with him. And his club West Ham inflicted on him”heaviest fine“. Such a sanction generally corresponds to a withdrawal of two weeks’ salary, i.e. approximately 300,000 euros in his case.