2022-09-05
the stars of Paris Saint Germain (PSG) thrashed Nantes (0-3) in a French league game last Friday, but had to face criticism for making a relatively short trip by plane.
“From Paris to Nantes with Qatar Airways!” tweeted the club, whose owner is Qatari, while showing Kylian Mbappe, Lionel Messi and other stars PSG in the airplane which moved them to Nantes, regarding 350 kilometers from Paris.
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In a context of greater pressure in Europe to reduce the impact of the carbon footprint of travel, the flight to the west of France did not go unnoticed and was even commented on by the public train company.
“Paris-Nantes is less than two hours away by TGV,” said Alain Krakovitch, responsible for these high-speed trains at the SNCF and who said “renew” an offer to the club adapted to the “common interests” of “safety, speed , services and ecological mobility”.
Qatar Airways is the shirt sponsor of the PSG.
The alter-globalization association Attac also pointed out on Friday the attitude of the Argentine Lionel Messi, whose private jet made 52 flights since June, “this is 1,502 tons of CO2.”
“It’s as much as a Frenchman in 150 years,” says the organization, which asks to regulate the use of private jets, when environmentalist deputies in France ask for a debate on the matter.
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The French Sports Minister, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, has given her support to the SNCF proposal to transport football teams on their trips around France and has given a Spanish example to justify it.
Specifically, he has referred in statements to the France Info radio station to “the collaboration that exists between Real Betis and Renfe” with which the Sevillian team has obtained preferential rates for the players, the technical team and the leaders on their trips in train through Spain to play matches. The minister has insisted that some things must be changed to reduce the carbon footprint of sports activities.
