The attitude of some Nice supporters on Wednesday May 11, with a song mocking former Nantes player Emiliano Sala, who died in a plane crash in January 2019, caused amazement and indignation in Nantes.
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“Emiliano Underwater”but also “He’s an Argentinian who doesn’t swim well”… These are the words that some Nice supporters sang on Wednesday evening, during a match against Saint-Etienne. When he heard the news, Frédéric, a Nantes supporter for 45 years, was outraged: “It’s a pure scandal to have smeared Emiliano. He was one of our best players, and he was so humble that we have no right to smear him. Two years ago, the supporters of Brest had already smeared him with the exact same song. For me, they are not supporters.”
Through Emiliano Sala, it was FC Nantes who was targeted, four days after the defeat of OGC Nice in the final of the Coupe de France against Nantes.
by making fun of a dead person, we go beyond all limits, criticizes Nantes coach Antoine Kombouaré: “Human bullshit has no limits. These guys have nothing to do in a stadium. We would have that as supporters, they should be banned!”
“I feel sorry for Emiliano’s family. I knew that the supporters could be violent, stupid… But these are really donkeys.”
Antoine Kombouaré, coach of FC Nantesat franceinfo
Surprised, amazed, and taken aback at the end of his match against Rennes, Nicolas Pallois, former partner and friend of the Argentine footballer did not wish to react. In a press release, OGC Nice “condemns in the strongest terms the song concerning Emiliano Sala heard on Wednesday evening at the Allianz Riviera.”
The reaction of Nantes residents: report by Jean-Pierre Blimo
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