Ligue 1: Angers SCO and its leaders combine crises

Red lantern of the French championship for the first time since his return to the elite, in 2015, the Sporting Club of the West, which plays this Sunday in Monaco as part of the 13th day of L1, knows a Start of the tumultuous season.

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Alarming results on the field, deleterious atmosphere outside … Angers is 20 e and last in the ranking of the French Ligue 1 championship before 13 ^e day, when From which the Sporting Club of the West (SCO) will move to Monaco, Sunday October 30. Faced with the criticisms falling on the club, its president chose the opposite view. At the beginning of October, Saïd Chabane recruited Mohamed Sifaoui to the post of communication director of the SCO. A choice that details, the one who now presents himself as “writer” and “former journalist” being previously known for his work on radical Islam and his virulent tweets.

This appointment was quick to sparks. The person concerned immediately warned journalists “who sometimes allow themselves to be drawn into sneaky maneuvers aimed at destabilizing the club […] and let themselves be instrumentalized by complacency or by naivety”, promising to prosecute them in court optionally. He immediately attracted the wrath of his former “colleagues”.

The communication of a club – like that of any institution – must not accept rumors or the campaigns of… https://t.co/t3r7apdxzv

– sifaoui (@mohamed sifaoui)

In a statement, the National Syndicate of Journalists (SNJ) underlined this “funny conception of journalist and press freedom”. For its part, the union of sports journalists in France A France blamed the polemicist, who “assumes the right to distinguish good and bad journalists according to their writings on his club”. And to add: “If he really thinks, Mr. Sifaoui did well to change jobs.”

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Now installed at the Baumette training center, the latter does not bother. “You know what happened?” He asks, brave. All the real journalists called me, but not those who are in a propagandist logic. Because some of them behave badly with this club, were believed in them, consider that everything is due to them. There is no longer respect for the institution. “

In the vitreous office which gives on the field of the training center, Saïd Chabane confirms the words of his new “Dircom”, met a few months ago with a common friend. “I said to myself:” Why are I always looking for people who are in the football world? “I’m not the first to do it. We don’t ask him to know how to play football or know the different game patterns. We left too much to the street that created internal and external flaws. “Invited to clarify his thought, Mr. Chabane is not asked:” Our role is to give the information that We judge useful to give. Afterwards, if what interests some, that is to say what is shit to sell paper, it is their problem, not ours. “Sitting a few meters on a sofa , Mohamed Sifaoui boasts: “It’s great! I have always built myself in adversity. It never scared me.”

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