Earlier this week, Adil Rami returned to French news after gently laughing at his former trainer Rudi Garcia on Twitch.
“There is no game, there is no soul. It looks like Rudi Garcia is the coach “ joked the former Lille and Marseille defender during a game of FIFA, a video game simulating football. Words that did not fail to react, both among supporters of Olympique Lyonnais as among those of Olympique de Marseille. But via his Instagram account, the 2018 world champion regretted that his words had taken on such a magnitude. By recalling the immense respect which was his for Rudi Garcia, with whom he notably won a title of champion of France under the colors of LOSC.
“I had a controversy in spite of myself on M.Garcia, it was not wanted. I was streaming, I was playing Fifa and I got mad at my players. I make punchlines all the time when I play. I’m talking about everyone. It’s in the tone of fun. Malicious journalists have succeeded … I am the culprit, of course, I give them food. They published everything I could say. On the one hand, I am not proud of it. I also wanted to apologize for this punchline. But it pisses me off having to apologize while I play Playstation. You keep me from being natural. Even when I’m on stream, I’m going to have to have a formatted speech? “ wondered Adil Rami, always very talkative, a little too natural and who is necessarily exposed to this kind of controversy …
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