The Rugby match between France and New Zealand was a huge audience hit on TF1. On the contrary, the two Football matches had an average score, which proves a certain disenchantment for the Blues.
In recent days, comparisons have multiplied between the French football team and the rugby team, after last week's matches. It must be said that the contrast was enormous between the France-Israel football match in a Stade de France deserted due to the political and security context of the meeting, and the magnificent party on Saturday evening during the rugby clash between the Blues and New Zealand. Didier Deschamps' team improved its image by winning in style in Italy on Sunday, but for public opinion, it is clear that from now on, rugby takes precedence over football. The TF1 audiences prove it with 7 million viewers watching France-New Zealand compared to 5 million on average for the France-Israel and Italy-France football matches.
But if the teammates of Mike Maignan and Kylian Mbappé suffer such disenchantment, it is partly for reasons of racism according to Joëlle Dago-Serry, who put her foot in the dish on RMC by emptying her bag. “I still want to remind you that football is the number one sport in France. I remind you that the license record was broken again this year. You can say what you want, but it's the most popular sport. Football is two World Cups, a final two years ago. It's a team that doesn't always win well, it's true. But this bashing for a sport in which we generally excel and in which we have the most licensees, I don’t understand” Joëlle Dago-Serry first explained before continuing her argument.
The Blues victims of racism in France?
“I see a racist dimension, of discrimination. We keep reading that this team represents us less and less, why does it represent us less and less, because there are too many black players? People talk to me about Marseillaise, but in Platini's time, football players didn't shout about Marseillaise either. Football whatever people say, it’s the number one sport in France” delivered the columnist of Grandes Gueules on RMC. A very straightforward speech from the speaker, disappointed to see how football is now treated by the general public when it is in fact the number 1 sport in terms of number of licensees but also in terms of average audiences. over a season.
If football has not always done everything well to please the general public, such disenchantment is exaggerated and hides bad reasons according to the columnist, who hopes that this will change in the future. And despite the escapades of the players between drinking and violence on each trip and the federation mired in major conflicts of interest, rugby nevertheless maintains an immaculate image among the general public, which also has the gift of surprising Joëlle Dago- Serry.
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