- The Haute-Garonne football district announced on Wednesday that the matches it was to organize this weekend would not take place.
- Questioned by 20 Minutes , President Maurice Dessens explains this decision by the increase in violence around the land, which the district is not empowered to manage.
The vast majority of football matches scheduled for Saturday and Sunday in Haute-Garonne will not take place. Nothing to do with municipal decrees published to protect lawns copiously watered this week. The decision, communicated this Wednesday, was taken Tuesday evening during the steering committee of the departmental district, in order to react to the increase in violence on the sidelines of the meetings.
"It's a rant, launches Maurice Dessens, the district president contacted by 20 Minutes . We are responsible for what is happening on the ground, and we have a regulatory and disciplinary arsenal to control events. But not what is happening outside the handrail, with people who are not licensed by the FFF. "
PRESS RELEASE: STOP VIOLENCE
In reaction to the accumulation of violence around the stadiums (attacks on referees, educators, etc.), the Haute-Garonne Football District decrees that the weekend of March 7 and 8, 2020 will be dead day. /t.co/jFgrXQUIxg pic.twitter.com/iDaVsESf2S
The assault of a Colomiers educator on the sidelines of a tournament in Toulouse, on February 22, was "the drop of water that makes the vase overflow", says Maurice Dessens. “And last weekend, in Venerque, an individual entered the field to kick kids! "
"Everyone imagines having Zidane at home"
For the leader, if these facts concern only a tiny percentage of the “500 to 700 games” organized by the district each weekend, “there is an increase in these situations and that worries us”.
"Many parents and carers are getting more and more excited! Everyone imagines having Zidane at home! We don't respect anything anymore. Whereas if we are on a field, it is to take pleasure ... "
Concretely, the championship matches of categories U14 to senior are postponed, until departmental 1 (the meetings of the divisions above, managed by the Occitanie League until National 3, then by the FFF, will take place). As for the U13 and younger categories, they are simply canceled.
"If the phenomenon continues or increases, we are able to react in an even more significant way and to cancel a competition outright," warns Maurice Dessens.
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