Marquinhos, Neymar and Messi on the plane that took the PSG players to Nantes. Photo: Instagram capture.
After a regular 2021-22 season, with the criticisms fallen on his figures (Lionel Messi and Neymar, first of all), the paris st germain is having a great start to the season in French football.
They beat Nantes 3-0 in the last game, which they had already beaten on July 31 in the French Super Cup, and They are found as leaders of Ligue 1, awaiting the Champions League debut this Tuesday against Juventus. Even so, they don’t find peace of mind as well The questions reappear. The reason attracts attention.
The PSG team flew to Nantes, which is less than 400 kilometers from Paris, which has reignited the debate on ecological cost of this means of transport in the midst of an energy crisis.
Through his Twitter account, the director of the long-distance division of the French railway company SNCF, Alain Krakovichresponded to a video posted by a partisan media and exposed this problem.
“Paris-Nantes is less than 2 hours on @TGVINOUI”says part of Krakovitch’s tweet, referring to the high-speed trains operating in France.
The entrepreneur took the opportunity to renew the proposal that his company had made to the club of the French capital, “adapted to your specific needs, for our common interests: safety, speed, services and eco-mobility”.
And the French Minister of Sport, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, also gave her support to the SNCF proposal to transport football teams by train within France and provided a Spanish example to justify it.
Specifically, in the statements on the radio “France Info”, he referred “the collaboration that exists between Real Betis and Renfe”one of the main railway transport companies in Spain, with which the Sevillian team obtained preferential rates for the players, the technical team and their managers on their train journeys in Spain.
In harmony with the NGO “Attac”, which had criticized Messi in the midst of a campaign on social networks against private flights, the minister insists on the need for a change to reduce the carbon footprint in sports.
Under the title “The Ultra-Rich Destroy the Planet”, Attac noted this “From June to August Lionel Messi made 52 flights with his private plane, or 1,502 tons of CO2 (carbon dioxide). He is as much as a Frenchman in 150 years “.
The Minister of Transport, Clemente Beaune, had put this debate back on the agenda in mid-August, indicating that he was studying some kind of regulation for private air flights, adding that “the most efficient thing would be for this to be agreed at the European level”. In any case, no specific measure has yet been formalized.
Source: Clarin
