L’Equipe journalist Giovanni Castaldi criticised the Lyon crowd’s whistles towards Bradley Barcola during France-Belgium.
This is one of the few black spots of the Blues’ evening at the Groupama Stadium in Lyon. On the sidelines of
the victory of the French team over Belgium (2-0)Monday in the Nations League, Kylian Mbappé, Didier Deschamps and even Bradely
Barcola were roundly booed by the Lyon public.
Came into play in the 67th minutee minute, Bradley Barcola was the subject of another booing, before being booed at each of his touches of the ball. The reason? OL fans have not digested the departure of the 22-year-old winger to Paris Saint-Germain a little over a year ago.
“His fault? Having brought 50 million euros to his club”
Present in Lyon for this match between France and Belgium, Giovanni Cstaldi let out a big rant on X (formerly Twitter) against the Lyon supporters who took Bradley Barcola to task. What a shame! A 22-year-old player wearing the French team jersey, booed, jeered… His mistake? Having brought in 50 million euros to his club. Distressing »wrote the journalist from the L’Equipe channel.
At the end of the match, Didier Deschamps also deplored the whistles against the young Parisian and the other French players targeted. I heard those (the whistles, ed.) for Bradleyhe confided. I’m not going to point the finger at one club or another, but that’s the only regret when you go to play in the provinces: there can be this type of reaction. It doesn’t have any influence on me but it obviously has some on the players. When you come, you support the French team…”
