Red Star coach Habib Beye denounced “mimes” and “monkey cries” against several of his players during the National championship match played Wednesday evening in eastern France in Nancy (10th day), and demanded sanctions against their authors.
“When I have three of my players who come to see me and say to me “coach, they are miming monkey noises and all that”, for me it is unacceptable,” Habib Beye declared after the meeting, which ended with a parity score (1-1).
Very angry, the coach of the club from the Paris region, current leader of the National championship (third division), criticized carelessness on the subject.
“We let things like this happen in stadiums (…). I have people who tell me today that we must not make things worse, that things are like that. In fact, we have trivialized all these situations. Today, the football match does not interest me, the point (taken on the field) does not interest me… It is erased in my memory,” he said.
Testimonies and sanctions expected
The former Senegalese international, who played in Strasbourg, Marseille and England in the years 1990 to 2010, said he hoped for testimonies and sanctions.
“If we let things like this happen, we won’t move forward (…). And, what’s more, afterwards, we have players from Nancy who will greet their audience, that’s good… I hope that this audience will be sanctioned, that there will be images, sounds or people who will come testify,” continued Habib Beye.
The AS Nancy Lorraine club did not react immediately, but its coach, Benoît Pedretti tempered the point of view expressed by Habib Beye: “It’s all well and good to accuse but you have to accuse with evidence,” he said, before adding that “if it’s proven, we no longer want to see them in a stadium.”
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