Bayern Munich striker Franck Ribéry apologized to BeIN TV consultant Patrick Guillou on Wednesday for insulting and physically attacking him after a Bundesliga match on Saturday, Kicker reports.
According to the football magazine, Patrick Guillou and Franck Ribéry met at Bayern headquarters in the presence of club president Uli Hoeness and sports director Hasan Salihamidzic. The player allegedly apologized to Mr. Guillou, a former professional himself whom he has known for a long time.
Asked by AFP on Wednesday, BeIN TV merely confirmed laconically that Patrick Guillou "met the club well today," without giving any details about the participants in the meeting. Bayern has not officially communicated.
Ribéry, 35, had "made abusive remarks and then physically attacked" the commentator, according to BeIN, after Bayern's 3-2 defeat of Borussia Dortmund in the league on Saturday. The clash, according to testimony published Monday by the daily Bild, took place on the bus team one hour after the match, which rejected Bayern in 5th place in the standings at seven points in Dortmund.
Without being able to confirm this, Bild assumed that the player's anger was provoked by Guillou's comments during the match. The wife of Ribery, Wahiba, had sent on Instagram a message to say that Guillou was "much too tiring and useless . "
BeIN Sports, in a statement, affirmed Monday to have "full confidence in the journalistic integrity of Patrick Guillou, who officiates on its antennas since 2017 and which is one of the best international consultants" .