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The president of Olympique de Marseille Pablo Longoria admits having been clumsy in his words.
Saturday evening, after the heavy defeat of Olympique de Marseille against AJ Auxerre (3-0), Pablo Longoria sparked a lively controversy by attacking Ligue 1 arbitration.
” All was planned, organized, from the yellow box of Balerdi against Angers. It's a shit championship, if the superligue comes to see us, we go right away. It is corruption, real corruption ”, thus launched Marseille president in the corridors of Father-deschamps.
His statements were quickly denounced by referee Jérôme Brisard, who wanted to defend his colleague Jérémy Stinat, to the whistle for this meeting, and whose home was vandalized. “We express our solidarity to Jérémy Stinat, who saw his home to be degraded”said the Mayennais at the microphone of Dazn.
Longoria's regrets
Under the threat of a heavy sanction, potentially several suspension matches, the OM leader tried to calm the game by returning to his words. He notably admitted a formulation error from him.
“No corruption in French football. The form was not appropriate and this word, I regret it. I am very self-criticism with myself, I cannot agree to give this type of image. A club president cannot behave like that. Nothing justifies the form and I am not happy with myself. Everyone explained to me the meaning of the word corruption in French, because in Spanish, it has a broader meaning. Be careful, that doesn't justify anything. But I never have life thought of something like exchanges of money or financial transactions, I will never allow myself that ”said Longoria this Monday with theAFP.
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