The suspension for nine months of OL coach Paulo Fonseca is deemed “logical” by the Minister of Sports.
“I am the person who has to pay. It’s not fair. No one can say the opposite. »» Paulo Fonseca did not escape it. After the victory won by OL in Bucharest (3-1), Thursday evening in the round of 16 first leg of the Europa League, the Lyon coach was obviously invited to react to his suspension for nine months, pronounced by the LFP disciplinary committee following his attachment with Mr. Millot, last weekend against Brest.
“I have nine months of suspension for a situation for which I apologizedhe deplored. I see the media circus which continues to say that I committed an assault against the referee. There are the images. I did not touch the referee. I verbally attacked the referee. But I have never done physical assault and I did not intend to do it. I think that the people who decided on this sanction thought of the general situation of French football. »»
Paulo Fonseca, the Minister of Sports gets involved
The fact remains that if it is kept by the Rhone club, the Portuguese technician will have to follow his players at a distance in Ligue 1.. A well-deserved punishment, according to the Minister of Sports, Marie Barsacq. “The sanction is logicalDid she react in the columns of La Dépêche du Midi. Paulo Fonseca’s gesture is extremely serious. The disciplinary committee sends a message today of zero tolerance to all attacks on arbitrators. »»
“I obviously salute today the need to protect the arbitral body. It is really essential. It must also participate in reclaiming the image of football. It is absolutely necessary today that these sanctions are playing a deterrent effect ”she added. Lyon leaders, who denounced a sanction for a “Extreme severity”have already announced that they were studying
“All possible appeal solutions”
to challenge it.
