A game without suspense. According to the parisian, the French National Assembly soccer team lost Wednesday 9-2 against a team that includes former soccer glories Robert Pirès and Christian Karembeu. A habit for parliamentarians. Since the creation of their team in 2014, heavy defeats have followed: 12-1 in 2014, 6-1 in 2015, 14-2 in 2017.
The match was marked by the serious injury of Julien Odoul. The deputy of the National Rally (RN) of Yonne suffers a rupture of the patellar tendon according to the parisian. She left the field in a wheelchair. The match also raised €35,000 on behalf of the e-Enfance association, which fights cyberbullying.
If this meeting has been talked about, it is not so much because of its sports aspect as because of its political bets. For the first time, the parliamentary football team included members of the National Association in its squad. A novelty that led rebel deputies, socialists and environmentalists to boycott the party. A way for them to fight against a “banalization” of the extreme right and an “alleged normalization” of the RN’s elected officials.
Karl Olive compares the situation with the Ligue 1 Clasico
Aurore Bergé, leader of the presidential majority, also expressed himself in this sense, although he included “the extreme left” in his argument. “I can only recommend not participating in a match that will result in a ‘team photo’ where we will therefore return to the formula that ‘we wear the same shirt’. This is not the case,” the Yvelines deputy had written. to his group, in a message that BFMTV was able to consult.
“We don’t play on the same team. Neither far right nor far left.”
A recommendation that Karl Olive, one of the captains of the National Assembly team, had not followed. To justify himself, the Renaissance deputy for Yvelines had taken the example of the two historic rivals in Ligue 1, Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique de Marseille.
“[Ils] He started on the pitch in the championship, but he wasn’t in the wrong fight when it came to playing in the colors of the France national team,” he explained on BFMTV.
Source: BFM TV
