Neymar and Alvaro are in a boat.
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The post-Classic PSG-OM controversy has been swelling since Sunday evening after the accusations of racist insults by Neymar against the Marseillais Alvaro Gonzalez.
The Téléfoot channel, the exclusive broadcaster of this meeting, was unable to find the sequence in question which would have shed light on this affair.
To understand the workings of the realization of a match, we interviewed a specialist in the discipline.
For him, Téléfoot made a mistake in good faith.
The bosses of the new Téléfoot channel were certainly hoping for a softer start for their first big poster of the season.
Twice during Sunday's PSG-OM at the Parc des Princes, social networks, always quick to jump on the slightest failure of TV broadcasters, rebelled live not to have access to slow motion after the alleged racist insults including Neymar would have been the target of Alvaro Gonzalez (and Di Maria's spitting on that same player, to a lesser extent).
In the process, it is the journalist of RMC Daniel Riolo who cried scandal, giving a little more resonance to a case which is already likely to occupy us for a good long time yet.
“It's impossible that with so many cameras you don't have this sequence!” He choked.
Canal would have had them.
Or say that the sequence does not exist!
But that the production does not have the images is impossible.
Unfortunately, that gives me to think that the guys who do the production for you are badgers, they suck […] friends of the directors told me that it was not possible [not to have a images] ”.
Invited to react to the controversy in the show "After Foot", Thibault Le Rol, journalist at Téléfoot, wanted to deliver his version of the facts in order to prevent the poison of doubt from instilling in people's minds.
“We looked at everything, we saw nothing.
I'm a little sorry for Daniel Riolo, he said Monday night.
You implied that we wanted to make Ligue 1 a film, that we almost disguised our images.
I spent five hours today dissecting, dissecting all the cameras we had in our possession, to look at these images because racism is too important a subject.
If we had had the images, we would have shown them.
It was a huge info if we had had the pictures.
It was societal info.
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They hide everything from us, they tell us nothing
The chain therefore pleads an error in good faith.
Is it really credible?
“It can really happen, yes, answers a director accustomed to big games, preferring to remain anonymous.
There is a sort of urban legend about a lot of things that happened and where we say "they have the images, with all the cameras they put it is not possible otherwise".
It maintains a little suspicion, we say to ourselves "they don't want to give them away, they don't have the right to broadcast them".
While in reality, this phenomenon can happen.
We didn't see it, we missed it, period ”.
In his defense, if the public comes to such conclusions, it is also because for many years the broadcasters of Ligue 1 have promised them not to miss a crumb of the match thanks to the famous "exceptional devices" of coverage matches.
Obviously, behind, he is more and more demanding.
For an event of the type of PSG-OM, around thirty cameras are dispatched in the stadium.
Except that out of these thirty, "we will have 25 who constantly follow the game," continues the director.
Something that is off the ball as they say, it can happen to miss it.
This is however the worst fear of the real.
As Jean-Jacques Amsellem, famous French football director, said on RTL, "the one and only instruction is to tell yourself that nothing should be missed".
The failure, the director's fear
And when does that happen, as it seems to be the case for Téléfoot on Sunday?
"It depends on what we miss," reflects our specialist.
The director, when he comes out of his game on Sunday, he knows he missed the insult or the spit because he didn't see them.
But on returning home, he sees that the controversy is swelling and there he will say to himself "but why I don't have the images?".
He's gonna be wrong.
Whoever misses a goal (and it has happened to all the great French directors), it takes two years to recover, very clearly.
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He himself was entitled to his small organ descent after missing a goal from thirty meters under the bar: “Finally, the start of the action, when the attacker arms his shot, he corrects.
It was after a free kick played quickly, I showed the slow motion of the foul that had just taken place.
I guarantee you that it was quite virulent behind, I took a lot and I took a long time to recover.
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To return to the case of the Neymar-Alvaro clash, what puzzles it is precisely that the action concerns the Brazilian, a player who alone deserves a particular device.
Our witness nods.
“When you have Neymar and you're a director, you manage to have your finger on it, as they say.
Neymar is Neymar.
If he does something crazy or seriously injures himself, or even his career ends there, and I don't have the image, I think we're not going to be very happy when I will go to the office the next day.
Then we can be in close-up on Neymar's face and miss the player who insults him.
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BeIN has other images
As a fine connoisseur of the profession and the workings of the world of television, the sports director has difficulty believing the conspiratorial accusations against the Téléfoot channel.
"I have already seen this kind of debate, we often lend bad intentions where there are none," he laments.
Especially since if I am the Téléfoot channel, I have every interest in the image coming out in terms of advertising and credibility.
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The end of the story may come from BeIN MENA (the branch of BeIN Sports in the Middle East, owned by QSI like PSG), which had the rights that evening to place an isolated camera on Neymar and who would have filmed the entire scene with Alvaro Gonzalez.
According to the Parisian, PSG has mandated lip-reading experts to find out what Alvaro Gonzalez said to Parisian number 10.
Depending on the results, the disciplinary committee of the LFP could then ask to analyze in turn the images of BeIN Sports.
Until then, let's hope that the director of Sunday's game doesn't take two years to recover.
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