Team?

November 13th, 2021| Topic: RaMbLeS | 2

There was a story several years ago of a professional ice-skater hiring thugs to incapacitate a competitor. Remember that? Well, this is worse.

Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) Féminine is a French women’s soccer club based in Paris, competing in the Division 1 Féminine, the top division of French soccer. PSG confirmed the other day that star Aminata Diallo was in police custody. For what, you ask?

This lady hired hit men to attack teammate 31-year-old fellow soccer star Kheira Hamraoui. Ms. Hamraoui was dragged out of her care by two masked men, punched, kicked, and attacked with an iron bar in a deliberate attempt to stop her playing. Diallo, her 26-year-old rival for Hamraoui’s position on the team, was arrested last week.

Said PSG in a statement:

Paris Saint-Germain takes note of Aminata Diallo’s police custody this morning by the Versailles SRPJ [Service régional de police judiciaire] as part of the procedure opened following an assault last Thursday evening against club players. Paris Saint-Germain strongly condemns the violence committed. Since Thursday evening November 4, the club has taken all the necessary measures to guarantee the health, well-being and safety of its players. Paris Saint-Germain is working with the Versailles SRPJ to shed light on the facts. The club is attentive to the progress of the procedure and will study the follow-up to be given to it.”

Hamraoui had joined PSG from Barcelona only a few months ago. The conspirator had been in a fierce battle with the victim for a first-team spot ever since. Not making the spot, Diallo, who has been with PSG since 2016, has been on loan with the Utah Royals and Atletico Madrid in the past two years.

The unfortunate woman’s ambush occurred while returning from a PSG party. She was traveling with two other teammates, one of them the perpetrator, Diallo, herself, who was at the wheel of the car at the time of the assault.

Hamraoui had to receive several stitches in her hands and legs and is reportedly doing well.

It is bad enough to attack a competitor, but to attack a teammate perceived as a competitor? Something is clearly wrong here.

For the body is not one member, but many.
If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,”
it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.
And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,”
it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.
If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be?
If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
If they were all one member, where would the body be?
But now there are many members, but one body.
And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”;
or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body
which seem to be weaker are necessary. …
God has so composed the body, …
so that there may be no division in the body,
but that the members may have the same care for one another.
And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it;
if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it.
1 Corinthians 12:18–22, 24– 25

One body. One team.

SOURCE:
Eurosport