He won the game six goals to one. Thursday, October 14, Emmanuel Macron sweated at the Léo-Lagrange stadium in Poissy. Invited by the Variétés Club de France, he took part in a charity football match that opposed him to caregivers from the city’s CHU, alongside great players like Christian Karembeu. Crampons screwed to the feet and flocked jersey of the number 3, the President of the Republic scored the first goal of his team’s six, on a penalty. To be sure to win the competition, the head of state even trained in the garden of his residence at La Lanterne near Versailles with his security officers and one of Brigitte Macron’s children, as revealed by Le Parisien.
The meeting ended with the presentation of a check for 50,000 euros to the Paris Hospitals Foundation, chaired by Brigitte Macron. “Thank you to all the players, you have always made me dream. And thank you to the Poissy caregivers“, launched the first lady, always according to Le Parisien.
A coup de com ‘à la Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
On the opposition side, the participation of Emmanuel Macron in this football match irritates. Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party, pointed out the resemblance of this communication strategy to that of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. Indeed, in 1973, he had also participated in a football match and… scored on a penalty! At the time, he was Minister of Finance. According to Le Parisien, this image was used to praise “his dynamism and his youth in the perspective of his race at the Elysee Palace.“
On Twitter, Olivier Faure has therefore pasted side by side the images of presidents playing football. “Same policy, same communication, same media complacency. (Spoiler: at the end it is Mitterrand who wins)“, he wrote on the social network.
Same policy, same communication, same media complacency. (Spoiler: at the end it is Mitterrand who wins) pic.twitter.com/S7fLmY2MvG
– Olivier Faure (@faureolivier) October 14, 2021