Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines — France coach Didier Deschamps has attacked Paris Saint-Germain’s alleged racial profiling of players as “unacceptable and intolerable”. Last week French investigative website Mediapart claimed that the Ligue 1 club’s talent scouts operated a system of racial profiling for years. The revelations prompted the French champions to launch an immediate investigation. PSG GM Jean-Claude Blanc acknowledged that the practice, which is illegal in France, did take place but he blamed the scandal on a “handful of individuals” acting on their own. Deschamps gave a forthright response when tackled on the affair at a training camp for France’s Nations League game against the Netherlands on Friday. “I’ll keep this short, they are simply unacceptable and intolerable actions,” the France boss said. Mediapart, citing the latest series of Football Leaks documents, said that between 2013 and this year, PSG’s scouting department filled in recruitment forms on potential youth ...
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