Panorama
May 17 2011
Armenia

French football federation is concerned about the assistant coach
Alian Boghossian’s statement in the opening of the Grozny stadium.

“L’Equipe” says Boghossian, a former player who is now assistant coach
for the French national team, told Friday that he “didn’t take a euro
and had nothing to reproach himself with” after the match. “It’s a
private initiative, independent of the French Football Federation.

Several days ago, a player called me and proposed I participate in a
match in Chechnya for a humanitarian cause. I come from Armenia, where
the people suffered like the people in this very close region. So I
responded that I would go. I took vacation days and went. For free,
clearly.”