A handball match in the under-15 women’s section, Bouillargues – Beaucaire, was held on Saturday October 5 in Beaucaire. Parents of players from the Bouillargues club are complaining about the behavior of the Beaucair referee deemed “aggressive”. The president of the Beaucaire club denies all accusations.
« What I saw was incredible. A pseudo referee who only whistles in one direction and manages to win his team by two small goals, who brags about his decisions and provokes the parents throughout the match.testifies a parent of a player from the Bouillargues Handball Nîmes Méditerranée club.
“What I saw was incredible”
Abdelhafid Koubaa, president of the Beaucaire club and father of the referee of this meeting, told our editorial team that “the confirmed referee referees adults and plays in the senior team, there is no concern about his skills”. Selon Abdelhafid Koubaa : “Beaucaire wins the match with two goals, I can understand that it’s annoying, perhaps they didn’t expect a defeat. »
“The referee was challenged on the field”
Another parent of a player from Bouillargues confides to us: “ Seeing the threats and invectives from the referee, I took out my cell phone at the end of the match to film this character who obviously does anything in this room and his father’s club. People came out of nowhere to stop me from filming and then threatened me. »
Another version abounds from Abdelafid Koubaa : “from the first to the last minute, the referee was challenged on the pitch. The Bouillargues club is a club that I respect and with which we have agreements. Only we beat them when they were undefeated, for that the referee was questioned throughout the match.” As for the threats during filming, the president also denies their existence.
Provocations to violence?
Olivier Vairon, coach of the Bouillargues club, testifies that the referee in question “had inappropriate behavior towards the public present, inciting them to violence during the match with provocative gestures and inviting them to join him at the end of the away match to fight it out. » “Certainly not!” opposes the president of the Beaucair club who plans to take the case to the disciplinary commission. He had to tell them to get out if they couldn’t control their nerves. »
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