Angers has hit rock bottom. Literally corrected (0-5) on the lawn of Montpellier Sunday afternoon during the 26th day, the SCO is now twelve points behind the first non-relegation, Strasbourg. In his post-match conference, Abdel Bouhazama, his coach, no longer has any illusions about the end of his team’s season: “I think it’s dead for maintaining”, a- he thus declared, fatalistic. But, on the eve of International Women’s Rights Day, it is other shocking remarks from Gérald Baticle’s replacement.
At the hotel, just before the match, Abdel Bouhazama chose to motivate his troops in a somewhat special way and thought in advance, about the media frenzy that is shaking his defender Ilyes Chetti, suspected of having molested a young woman during an evening in a nightclub during the international break linked to the World Cup. “It’s not bad, we’ve all already touched girls”, are his words, first denied by the person concerned and then confirmed by the latter to our colleagues from Ouest-France and the Team. The 28-year-old player must appear according to the procedure of appearance on prior admission of guilt before the court of Angers in April.
Very quickly, the Angevin supporters reacted, this Tuesday, after the revelation of these shocking remarks which have nothing to do with the sportsman. They asked for the departure of the former director of the training center, propelled to the front of the stage first as an interim, then confirmed in his duties on January 5, 2023.
But the black Sunday of Angers does not stop there. Also during his pre-match speech, the coach would have presented Paul Bernardoni, his goalkeeper and Sada Thioub, his Senegalese international striker, as “black cats”, the two players having experienced the descent previously with ASSE . During the meeting, Bernardoni helped the Montpellier player Téji Savanier, already a double scorer, to get up, which greatly displeased Bouhazama. Bernardoni simply replied that Savanier was a former teammate…