The controversy began on Friday. The team from the capital took a private plane from the sponsor company Qatar Airways to play a Ligue 1 match in Nantes, a city located about 350 kilometers southwest of Paris.
In a context of greater pressure in Europe to reduce the impact of the carbon footprint in transportthis displacement did not go unnoticed and was even commented on by the public train company SNCF.
“Paris-Nantes is less than two hours away by TGV,” said Alain Krakovitch, who is responsible for those high-speed trains.
Asked on Monday about those statements, Galtier played the trick of irony, replying that they spoke with the company that organizes their trips to see if they can “travel by sailboat“.
These statements, together with the image of Kilian Mbappé at his side at a press conference dying of laughter, earned him a call to order from the Minister of Sport, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, as well as criticism from the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire , or the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, among others.