André Villas Boas returned to the racist remarks allegedly made during the PSG-Basaksehir match.
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André Villas Boas, the OM coach, threatened and insulted a journalist from
La Provence on
Wednesday evening after his team's defeat against Rennes.
He does not like an article published by the regional daily on his personal record in the Champions League.
Before the match against Rennes on Wednesday evening, he had already returned to this article after the match against City, last week, and that of Monaco, on Saturday.
"I'll catch you.
"André Villas Boas, the coach of Olympique de Marseille threatened and insulted a journalist from
La Provence on
Tuesday evening after his team's defeat against Rennes (2-1).
It was at the end of the press conference that the incident took place, in two stages.
“After his intervention in front of the press, André Villas Boas did not take the usual route to leave the room but preferred to make his way among the journalists sitting at a good distance from him, Covid-19 requires.
Nobody really understood why the Marseille coach, who was not wearing a mask, had invited himself there, until he tapped a journalist from
La Provence
on the shoulder
, before threatening him ” , tells us our Rennes colleague of
20 Minutes
Camille Allain who attended the scene.
Then AVB spoke to the journalist of the Marseille daily: “Thank you.
Continue like that you.
I will catch you me.
If I'm lucky enough to catch you… Keep it up, that's fine.
"
🗣 The sound of threats from Villas-Boas to a journalist during the conference after OM's defeat in Rennes.
Big tension.
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Ricardo Carvalho forced to belt him
But the altercation did not end there, and twenty minutes later a new incident took place between the two protagonists.
“Villas Boas went even further, under the bewildered eyes of several witnesses.
“God will give me the chance to catch you someday,” he repeated.
It took Ricardo Carvalho, his deputy, to belt him in order to bring him to his senses, ”this time relates
La Provence
on its website, while condemning this“ intolerable attitude ”.
It all started with an article published the day before the match against Manchester City, for the last day of the Champions League.
Provence
headlined “AVB in C1: hit-and-run”, in which the regional daily gives an unflattering assessment of the Portuguese coach in the flagship competition.
André Villas Boas had also complained to the person concerned during the post-match press conference.
Excuses?
End of the story ?
Well no, AVB put a piece back in the machine on Saturday, after OM's victory against Monaco (2-1), qualifying the front page of the newspaper as "pathetic", and criticizing the journalist who was not yet not here.
The new outburst of anger, punctuated with insults and threats this time, from AVB on Wednesday evening in reindeer intervened while
La Provence
published in its edition of the day a mood post "AVB, the crime of lèse majesté" .
After the incident yesterday, the journalist in question does not wish to file a complaint so as not to add fuel to the fire, but hopes for an apology.
The Union of Sports Journalists in France (UJSF) has been seized of the case and a press release is due to be published this Thursday afternoon.
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