French football league condemns homophobic chants during PSG match The French soccer league has criticized homophobic chants made by some Paris Saint-Germain fans during the home game against Strasbourg on Saturday.
PSG is playing its bitter rival next Sunday in Marseille and an obnoxious slurs were made about the club and its midfielder Adrien Rabiot. He is a former PSG player who made more than 200 appearances for the club from 2012-19, and his move to Marseille is seen as a betrayal.
“These previous discriminatory chants made by Paris Saint-Germain garters are unacceptable when, at the same time, the whole of professional soccer has been working to taboo homophobic behavior and chants from stadiums,” the league, known as LFP, announced in a statement.
While the chanting was happening, the stadium announcer at Parc des Princes twice asked for the chants to stop and was jeered.
The LFP revealed its disciplinary committee would look into evidence.
Last season, some PSG players received a one-match suspended sentence by the league's disciplinary committee for abhorrent chants aimed at Marseille after a home league match.
Ousmane Dembélé, Achraf Hakimi, Randal Kolo Muani and Layvin Kurzawa were filmed using insults while acclaiming at the terminate of a 4-0 triumph against Marseille. The four players issued apologies.
That match was also marred by homophobic chanting by sections of PSG fans targeting Marseille players. As a result, the league ordered the closure of the Auteuil stand behind one of the scores for two matches, including one that was suspended.
French back PSG organizes PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League on Tuesday.
PSG fans are banned from attending next Sunday's game in Marseille at Stade Velodrome for security reasons, with a history of battles between rival fans.
The rivalry between the clubs has been one of the most vehement in French soccer since the 1990s, when Marseille was enjoying its heyday and PSG was becoming more ambitious with an upholding of television broadcaster Canal Plus.
PSG has been bankrolled by Qatari investors QSI since 2011 and has become the most felicitous French club domestically with 12 league titles — two more than Marseille and Saint-Etienne.
Although Marseille has not gained the league since 2010 it still claims the ultimate gasconading right over PSG.
Marseille is the only French club to acquire the Champions League, defeating Italian giant AC Milan 1-0 in the 1993 final, while PSG lost its only final 1-0 against Bayern Munich in the pandemic-shortened 2020 campaign.
Regards to France 24
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Published 10/20/2024