Five players from Toulousenew champions of the French Cup, refused to play this Sunday in the league match because they will wear the rainbow shirt in all the matches of the day.
It is an initiative of the French League that has already taken place in other years and seeks, for one day, for professional football to participate in the World Day against Homophobia and Transphobia, which is celebrated on the 17th.
Local newspaper La Depeche is now reporting that the players are Zakaria Aboukhlal, Moussa Diarra, Farès Chaibi, Saïd Hamulic and Logan Costa, although the latter assured L’Equipe that he had not informed the team managers that he doesn’t want to play.
Today’s Toulouse-Nantes league match is the revenge of the French Cup final on April 29, where the first team won by a resounding 5-1.
Predecessors of Idrissa Gueye (PSG)
In the second division, Donatien Gomis, the Senegalese defender of Guigamp, also refused to play today, added ‘La Depeche’. Last year, former Paris Saint-Germain player Idrissa Gueye refused to play in the shirt with the colors of the LGTBI + flag, citing personal reasons.
The Ethics Committee of the French Football Federation (FFF) summoned him to an appearance to give explanations, although that body does not have the capacity to impose sanctions for this reason.
Gueye, a Senegalese midfielder, was transferred in the summer of last year to English Everton, where he has played between 2018 and 2019, for around 10 million euros, according to the French sports press. In Senegal, homosexuality is prohibited and punishable by 1 to 5 years in prison.
Source: La Verdad
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