FRANCH Espagne: retrouvailles Griezmann-Joao Felix, le Real pour se racheter

9 min readNov 21, 2020

Déplacements périlleux: alors que le Real Madrid va tenter de se relever de sa terrible défaillance de Valence (4–1) à Villarreal samedi (16h15) en Liga, Antoine Griezmann retrouve son héritier Joao Felix lors de l’affiche entre l’Atlético Madrid et le FC Barcelone (21h00).

Le huis clos va épargner à Griezmann l’accueil hostile du Wanda-Metropolitano, qui l’avait reçu sous des sifflets appuyés pour son retour le 1er décembre dernier.

Mais, pour le choc de la 10e journée, l’ancien Colchonero(2014–2019) n’évitera pas le jeu des comparaisons avec Felix, le prodige portugais acheté 126 M EUR en 2019 pour lui succéder.

En pleine bourre depuis le début de la saison, celui-ci porte l’Atlético à seulement 20 ans, et a remplacé le Mâconnais dans le cœur des supporters.

Après une première saison d’adaptation difficile, Joao Felix a trouvé sa place au sein du dispositif de Diego Simeone, et l’Atlético est désormais la seule équipe invaincue de toute la Liga (5 victoires, 2 nuls).

Face à lui, “Grizi” aura l’occasion de confirmer son retour en forme, dans le sillage d’un automne bien débuté au Barça (deux buts sur les deux derniers matches de Liga, contre le Betis et Alavés), prolongé par un bon match avec les Bleus le 14 novembre face au Portugal de… Felix, en Ligue des nations (victoire 1–0).

Malgré les absences du prodige Ansu Fati (opéré du ménisque interne du genou gauche et absent 4–5 mois) et de Sergio Busquets (victime d’une entorse du genou gauche en sélection), le Barça, en difficulté au classement (8e, avec seulement 3 victoires en 7 matches), n’a pas vraiment le droit à l’erreur.

Côté Atlético, on pourrait assister au retour de Diego Costa, qui avait été victime d’une lésion musculaire à la cuisse gauche mi-octobre, pour épauler Joao Felix en attaque… en l’absence de l’ex-Blaugrana et grand ami de Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez. Contrôlé positif au Covid-19 avec l’Uruguay, il devra patienter pour disputer ces fameuses retrouvailles.

Saudi Arabia hosts the G20 summit Saturday in a first for an Arab nation, with the downsized virtual forum dominated by efforts to tackle the coronavirus pandemic and a crippling economic crisis.

The two-day meeting of the world’s wealthiest nations comes as President Donald Trump refuses to concede a bitter election and campaigners criticise what they call the G20’s inadequate response to the worst global recession in decades.

World leaders will huddle virtually as international efforts intensify for a large-scale roll out of coronavirus vaccines after a breakthrough in trials, and as calls grow for G20 nations to plug funding shortfalls.

Amid a raging pandemic, the summit, which is usually an opportunity for one-on-one engagements between world leaders, is reduced to brief online sessions of what some observers call “digital diplomacy”.

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman will preside over the summit, with sources close to the organisers saying climate change was among the issues topping the agenda.

World leaders, from German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, are expected to make speeches at the summit, the sources said.

Trump will also participate, a US official said.

G20 nations have contributed more than $21 billion to combat the pandemic, which has infected 56 million people globally and left 1.3 million dead, and injected $11 trillion to “safeguard” the virus-battered world economy, organisers said.

The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development projects global economic output will contract by 4.5 percent this year.

The summit “will seek to strengthen international cooperation to support the global economic recovery,” said Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan.

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“The G20 committed in March to do ‘whatever it takes to overcome the pandemic and protect lives and livelihoods,’” UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a statement.

“As we meet this weekend, we must hold ourselves to account for that promise.”

But G20 leaders face mounting pressure to help stave off possible credit defaults across developing nations.

- ‘Bolder measures’ -

Last week, G20 finance ministers declared a “common framework” for an extended debt restructuring plan for virus-ravaged countries, but campaign groups have described the measure as insufficient.

The constituent nations extended a debt suspension initiative for developing countries until the end of June next year.

But UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged G20 leaders to offer a “firm committment” to extend the initiative until the end of 2021.

International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva has warned that the global economy faces a hard road back from the Covid-19 downturn even as vaccines are now in sight.

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G20 nations must help plug a $4.5 billion funding gap in the so-called ACT-Accelerator — a programme that promotes an equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines — to rein in the pandemic, said a joint statement signed by Norway’s prime minister, South Africa’s president, the heads of the European Union and the World Health Organization.

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a staunch Trump defender, will be present in Saudi Arabia during the summit.

Trump, who continues to reject his election loss, took part Friday in an Asia-Pacific summit.

Many of his fellow G20 leader have already congratulated President-elect Joe Biden.

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- ‘Serious abuses’ -

Ahead of the summit, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she hoped the US will adopt a more multilateralist stance under Biden.

“We also expect of course new momentum from the new US administration” on climate change, reversing Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, she added.

Saudi Arabia’s human rights record has overshadowed the event.

Campaigners and families of jailed activists have launched vigorous drives to highlight the kingdom’s human rights abuses.

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Key among them are the siblings of jailed activist Loujain al-Hathloul, on hunger strike for more than 20 days demanding regular family contact.

But some Western officials have indicated human rights would not be raised at the summit, saying they prefer to use bilateral forums to discuss the issue with the Saudi government.

“The G20 presidency has conferred an undeserved mark of international prestige on the [Saudi] government,” said Michael Page, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.

“Instead of signalling its concern for Saudi Arabia’s serious abuses, the G20 is bolstering the Saudi government’s well-funded publicity efforts to portray the country as ‘reforming’ despite a significant increase in repression.”

The death of a black man beaten by white security guards at a supermarket sparked protests across Brazil Friday as the country celebrated Black Consciousness Day.

A video of Thursday night’s incident in the southern city of Porto Alegre captured on a witness’s mobile phone was broadcast on social networks and Brazilian media.

As the video went viral, around 1,000 protesters in Sao Paulo marched to a branch of the French-owned Carrefour supermarket chain and stoned the glass storefront before storming the premises, trashing and burning goods, according to an AFP photographer on the scene.

“Carrefour’s hands are dirty with black blood,” read one banner held up by demonstrators.

Police in Porto Alegre used tear gas and flash bang grenades to disperse a protest that had formed in front of the supermarket where the death occurred, according to local television.

Protests also broke out in the capital Brasilia, Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro, where a crowd picketed a Carrefour supermarket to prevent customers from reaching the checkouts.

“Carrefour can close, it has killed our brother, it will not work!” chanted dozens of young people carrying banners and masks with the slogan “Black Lives Matter”.

The video on social media shows 40-year-old welder Joao Alberto Silveira Freitas repeatedly being punched in the face and head by a security guard while he is being restrained by another at a supermarket.

A woman stands beside them, filming with her mobile phone.

The military police in Rio Grande do Sul state said the man had threatened a female worker at the supermarket, who called security.

Silveira Freitas lost consciousness during the assault and died on the spot as medics tried to revive him.

- ‘Could not breathe’ -

A friend of the victim who witnessed the beating told G1 news that as the security guards were beating him, Silveira Freitas “screamed that he could not breathe,” a scene reminiscent of the death of George Floyd, a black man who died of asphyxiation as a white US police kneeled on his neck in Minneapolis last May, a killing that sparked massive protests across the United States.

Both the supermarket security guards were arrested. One of them was identified as a member of the military police who worked part-time at the supermarket.

In a statement, Carrefour’s Brazilian subsidiary deplored the “brutal death” of Silveira Freitas and promised to take “appropriate measures to hold accountable those involved in this criminal case.”

Carrefour said it would cut ties with the security company that employed the guards.

In a series of tweets in Portuguese, the French head of Carrefour, Alexandre Bompard, expressed his condolences and said that the images posted on social media were “unacceptable.”

“Internal measures have immediately been implemented by the Carrefour Group Brazil, principally on the question of security company contracts. These measures are insufficient. My values, and the values of Carrefour, do not allow for racism and violence,” he wrote, calling for a complete review of employee training, diversity and intolerance.

- Structural Racism -

The killing sparked outrage on social networks and overshadowed Brazil’s Black Consciousness Day, a holiday in several states.

“From one November 20 to another, and every day, the racist structure of this country brings us brutality as a rule,” social activist Raull Santiago said on Twitter.

“It seems that we have no way out…not even on Black Consciousness day,” Brazil international footballer Richarlison said.

“In fact, what conscience? They killed a black man, beaten in front of the cameras. They beat him and filmed. Decency and shame have been lost to violence and hatred,” the Everton player said on Twitter.

In Brazil, the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery — in 1888 — around 55 percent of the population of 212 million identifies as black or mixed-race.

Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro had made no public comment on the death by late Friday, but his vice president Hamilton Mourao, called it “regrettable.”

Mourao said it was the work of “a security agent unprepared for the work” and denied that it was a racist act.

“For me, in Brazil, there is no racism. That is something that they want to import here to Brazil. That does not exist here,” said Mourao.

Philosopher Djamila Ribeiro, one of the most influential voices in the fight against racism in Brazil, told AFP that “the naturalization and justification of the death of black people as a result of violence is present in political, legal, business and media discourses.”

FRANCH Espagne: retrouvailles Griezmann-Joao Felix, le Real pour se racheter

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