FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE – The dark case of extortion concerning the French midfielder, which coincides with the decline of AS Saint-Étienne, testifies to the profound changes that professional football has undergone in recent decades, analyzes the philosopher Robert Redeker.
Author of numerous books, Robert Redekerhas notably published “Le Soldat impossible” (Éditions Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, 2014), “L’Éclipse de la mort” (Éditions Desclée de Brouwer, 2017) and “Les Sentinelles d’Humanité. Philosophy of heroism and holiness” (Desclée de Brouwer, 2020). Last published work: “Sport, I love you, me neither” (Editions Robert Laffont, coll. “Homo ludens”, 112 p., 10 €).
While French football is wading through sordid news items (Karim Benzema sentenced to a one-year suspended prison sentence, Benjamin Mendy who faces life imprisonment in England, Paul Pogba victim of the bad manners of his entourage), the most beautiful club that our country has known, AS Saint-Étienne, continues its inexorable sinking towards erasure. It points in the last places of Ligue 2. Few things reveal as much as this contrast, with such clarity, the cultural, civilizational and identity crisis that France is going through in this first third of the 21st century.
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