Christophe Galtier, PSG coach since 2022, has been caught up in a controversial affair that dates back to his time at the OGC Nice club. An internal email from OGC Nice was published by RMC Sport and accuses the club’s ex-coach of having made racist remarks.
New setbacks for Christophe Galtier. In difficulty at PSG, the Parisian coach finds himself in turmoil after the broadcast by RMC radio of remarks he would have made during his season at OGC Nice in 2021-2022 and quoted by Julien Fournier, his former director athlete, with whom he has been cold for several months. The current PSG coach has so far not reacted to these accusations, which come a few months after the first accusations, which remained unclear at the time. “I don’t want to get tired of debating everything that is said. The function automatically creates a debate one after the other. On the form, I’m not surprised knowing the character. There you go, it’s That’s all I have to tell you,” commented the PSG coach after accusations from his former sports director at OGC Nice, Julien Fournier.
What do we read on these emails published by RMC on Tuesday April 11 and where do they come from? “Yes, the email was really written by Julien Fournier to Dave Brailsford, Ineos football director. This email is very long and very heavy”, assured Daniel Riolo at the microphone of RMC on Tuesday evening, revealing to have received this email on Saturday evening , a “document that was not sent to me by Julien Fournier. There is no header on the emails”, specifies the journalist.
The email would therefore come from the correspondence between Julien Fournier and the director of the football branch of Ineos, owner of the club, Dave Brailsford. “Once his agent/son left, I told Christophe Galtier about the discussion I had just had and asked him if all of this was true. He then replied that it was and that I had to take it into account. of the reality ‘of the city’ and that indeed we could not have so many blacks and Muslims in the team”, relates Julien Fournier in this email sent to the football director of Ineos. “He said to me ‘last night’ I went to the restaurant and everyone fell on me saying that we have a team of blacks’ then to add ‘Julien you must realize in which city we are, we we are in the city of Jacques Médecin (former mayor of Nice, editor’s note), and our team does not correspond to what people want, as it does not correspond to me’, there was no sporting argument but only arguments religion or skin color”.
This “leaked” email comes the day after Christophe Galtier’s stormy return to Nice for the Nice-PSG meeting on Saturday evening. The PSG coach was targeted by a banner quoting his mother and reacted strongly after the match. This new controversy comes especially a few months after the revelation of a conflict with Julien Fournier during his last months at OGC Nice. “The relationship I could have with Christophe was quite chaotic from the start of last season. If I “explains the real reasons why Christophe and I quarreled, Christophe will no longer go into a locker room in France or in Europe”, explained Julien Fournier last fall.
Biography Christophe Galtier. Christophe Galtier was born on August 23, 1966 in Marseille in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. After having been a football player from 1985 to 1999 where he played as a defender, he went through Marseille, Lille, Toulouse, Angers and Nîmes in particular before two experiences abroad in Italy and China before retiring.
At the end of his career, he became Bernard Casoni’s assistant at Olympique de Marseille, where he remained until 2001. Although he held the position of assistant for a long time (Bastia, Portsmouth, Lyon among others) , he had his first experience as a head coach at Saint-Etienne from 2009 to 2017 before leaving for Lille between 2017 and 2021 where he signed for OGC Nice. He is coaching PSG from August 2022.
As a player, Christophe Galtier was vice-champion of France in 1987 with Olympique de Marseille but also finalist in the Coupe de France in 1986 and 1987 with OM. As a coach, the native of Marseille won the Coupe de la Ligue in 2013 with Saint-Etienne before leaving for Lille where he was vice-champion of France in 2019 and champion of France in 2021. With OGC Nice, Christophe Galtier lost in the final of the Coupe de France in 2022 against FC Nantes.
After being assistant coach from 1999 to 2009, Christophe Galtier was appointed head coach at Saint-Etienne where he remained until 2017 before leaving for Lille where he was champion of France. During the 2021-2022 season, Christophe Galtier was the coach of OGC Nice. He is now the coach of PSG.
