French soccer giants Paris Saint-Germain made mild work of their opponents Nantes in an away league sport this weekend however then obtained a volley of criticism for making the comparatively quick journey to western France by airplane.
“From Paris to Nantes with @qatarairways!” the Qatar-owned facet tweeted because it confirmed Kylian Mbappe and different PSG stars boarding a jet for Nantes, simply 380 kilometres (240 miles) from Paris.
The PSG facet notched up a simple 0-3 victory to remain prime of Ligue 1 and one other video emerged on social media of its stars wanting comfortable and relaxed on the journey residence.
However with the carbon footprint of sports activities stars now coming underneath elevated scrutiny, the video was seized upon by Alain Krakovitch, the top of SNCF’s TGV high-speed passenger trains.
“Paris-Nantes is in lower than two hours by TGV,” he mentioned on Twitter.
“I renew our proposal for a TGV supply tailored to your particular wants in step with our frequent pursuits — security, velocity, providers and eco-mobility,” he added.
PSG coach Christophe Galtier made mild of the criticism throughout Monday’s press convention forward of the Parisians’ Champions League residence sport towards Juventus.
“We had a chat with our journey organisers earlier to see if we will journey by sand-yacht,” he mentioned, of the sailed seaside buggies fashionable on sure French seashores.
Qatar Airways, the emirate’s flag service, are the shirt sponsors of PSG.
The controversy comes towards the background of a rising clamour in France from ecologists for restrictions on non-public jet journey to scale back greenhouse gasoline emissions.
Stress group Attac had on Friday pilloried PSG’s Argentinian star Lionel Messi for his use of personal air journey.
“From June to August, Messi made 52 flights together with his non-public jet, amounting to 1,502 tons of CO2 emissions. That’s as a lot as a single French individual can be answerable for in 150 years,” it mentioned.
