In Greg's Team, Ludovic Obraniak, consultant and former player for the Girondins de Bordeaux, spoke out following incidents that occurred in the amateur world and towards youth team educators. Last week in Colomiers, two club educators had their car set on fire in front of their homes, 45 minutes apart, in two communities 30 kilometers apart. It could be that it was the work of parents of young people under the age of 11, whose children had been excluded before a football tournament. The club has suspended its activities until November 11.
This is not the first time that incidents have occurred in clubs in recent months, including attacks on educators in youth categories. This phenomenon is named after parents with a “Mbappé Project”, parents blinded by the success of Kylian Mbappé and his family, wishing to reproduce the same pattern with their child for profit.
« For the parents who are listening to us, know that I have never been the most talented player, of the successive generations in which I have been, U15, U17… And yet I won a Gambardella, I was very quickly to the pros. I can tell you that the journey is beyond talent, it is beyond many things. There are so many circumstances to become a professional that honestly, you don't imagine the path you have to take to get there. So stop imagining that your kid in U12, because he dribbled past three players, he can become the next… It's completely utopian.
[…] Today, with a good match you can become someone whereas before you had to do three years… Even just having your name behind the jersey changes everything in your outlook. We are talking about a system where people are able to come and supervise or make your son believe that he can possibly come to a foreign club two or three years later, that the parents can have money… These are things that can be regulated. We need laws, we need debates. It is the federation which has the power at a given moment to lock down and protect our children. It’s happening at that level. »
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