The meeting between Decize and Longvic, counting for the first day of Group A of Regional 2, was stopped on Saturday August 31 due to alleged racist remarks. The League ruled and considered that the facts had not been established. The match will be replayed.
On the Ligue de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté website, the “stopped” match notification has disappeared to make way for a new schedule for Sunday December 8 (2:30 p.m.). “You tell me that,” reacts Michel Beaunée, president of FC Decize. “We didn’t know the date yet. »
Saturday August 31, at the opening of the league championship, the Decize-Longvic match did not go beyond the 65th minute, while the Nivernaise team led 3-0 against the numerically inferior Longviciens.
A match without spectators
“The first half went well,” said the Longvic coach, two days after the match. “Then there were the first words, the first insults against a player when we changed sides. I asked people to calm down. Behind, the same people provoked me and wanted to settle it with violence. I didn't react. When I heard “Go shave your Taliban beard,” I warned the delegate, who went to see the so-called supporters. Five minutes later, it was no longer me who was targeted, but the players. “Dirty Arabs, dirty Arabs”. There, it was no longer possible. The players from both teams heard it, the spectators too, and a rally was created. The referee wanted to understand. » Longvic had decided not to resume the course of the game.
The League took the time to hear and ruled. “It appears that the word Taliban was not heard,” explains Michel Beaunée. “There are no witnesses. The two people,” clearly identified and incriminated, “have nothing. No sanction. Neither them nor the club.”
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Initially, Michel Beaunée had positioned himself to deny them access to the Stade des Halles. “Both the League and the club have no proof of the comments. That's why I called the board of directors together and asked for their agreement, so that these two people could return to the stadium. The answer was yes. »
The second act between Decize (3rd, 5 points from the leader) and Longvic (10th) will be played behind closed doors.
Yannick Borde
