The attack on two US Colomiers educators this week would be a consequence of the “Mbappé project”, this desire that parents of young players have to see their child break into football.
It was a news item that shook amateur football. This week, two educators from the US Colomiers team were targeted by arson attacks. Their cars were hit, and the house of one of them was also reached by the flames.
This affair has caused turmoil in amateur football, because it is symptomatic of an era where the parents of young players are putting increasing pressure on their children, but also on coaches. “ Unfortunately, for several years, the educator has been the target of parents, who idealize the Mbappé project. They do not accept the fact that their child plays in team 2 or 3 of the club”deplores Jean-Marc Sentein, president of the Haute-Garonne district, to France Bleu Occitanie.
The “Mbappé project”, and its negative aspects
The Mbappé project? This is the name given to the operation carried out by many parents, who want to make their child the new football star, the new Kylian Mbappé. The Bondynois started football at a very young age, looked after by his father, who was in charge of AS Bondy. And this results in parents who are sometimes too present and too insistent during their children's matches, sometimes from a very young age. In this case, the educators targeted this week take care of the club's U11s. Children who are therefore mostly in sixth grade.
“To date, the concordance of events suggests that this could be an act born from the frustration of not seeing one's child retained in a match, confirms for his part the president of Colomiers, Florian Aït-Ali. Parents must understand that it is not possible to react like that. We can clearly see that there is an escalation of violence and that frustrations are becoming insurmountable. To the point that we almost had deaths! This is unacceptable. »
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