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Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Tony Chapron will not spend their vacation together. In March 2015, after a meeting between PSG and Lorient, the Swedish international demanded the ball from the match referee in a disrespectful manner. What followed was a lively discussion in the corridors of the Parc des Princes.
A match like any other for Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Facing Lorient in March 2015, the scorer of PSG had scored a hat-trick and, as is customary, went to ask the match referee for the ball, Tony Chapron. But the latter refused to make this symbolic gesture. On Canal +, Chapron explained his decision.
Chapron looks back on his clash with Ibra
« The ball is given to the player who scores a hat-trick. And he doesn't speak to me in a respectful way. I say “sorry” to him. He said to me: “The ball”. I told him that he was missing words and that I would not give him the ball in these conditions. » confided the referee, now retired from the field.
“I would love to see him again.”
But the matter did not end there. “IHe waits for me in the tunnel and he takes me to task: “you want to be the boss in the cameras”. But no, it's not because I'm a referee that I wasn't owed respect. Plus he's someone I like, I'd like to see him again » blurted out Chapron during an episode of the show Detective Mathoux.
