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Christophe Pelissier’s opinion on the resumption of the French championships

French professional football is in full reflection. How to end the season by respecting the sanitary rules and not encroaching too much on the following exercise? This equation, the leadership of the League and the presidents of French clubs are trying to solve it, because it meets an imperative need, to receive TV rights money, the main source of income. However, she is increasingly opposed to the vision of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 players and coaches, as we relayed to you earlier.

New proof with the very interesting media outing of Christophe Pelissier, the coach of the leader of Ligue 2, FC Lorient, and former coach of Amiens. In an interview with Telegram, he detailed the difficulties ahead. “Between coaches, we ask questions like everyone else. How can you exercise your profession while respecting all the sanitary conditions required? In football, how do you manage to be 30 in a locker room, between the players, the technical and medical staff… How to keep distance? And during a match, are we going to stay one meter from the opponent? In closed meetings, there are still people (around a hundred people in total). It seems very very difficult at the moment “, he exposes, hoping that within a month, things have changed.

Sports equity at risk

But in his mind, the thinking is more advanced. “Honestly, for me, the season is dead. I really have doubts about this end of the championship as it is decided for the moment. “There will be ten games left after three months of stoppage, with matches every three days, behind closed doors, and certain teams that will have nothing to play …” Added to this is the doubts about the players’ physical integrity, in case the two divisions are asked to play every three days after a 3-month break. “Playing every three days cannot be improvised. If it’s once, it’s okay. But for a month and a half, there will be breakage. After two months of confinement, players will not be ready to endure such workloads ”said Pelissier.

Finally, he raised the case, still unresolved (apart from the fact that FIFA recommended the establishment of short contracts), of players at the end of the contract in June. “That’s why for me the championships will be skewed no matter what. Some players will have club or personal goals but others will also be at the end of their contracts in clubs that will have nothing to play for. They will especially think about protecting themselves… ”. Ready for a lot of concessions to end the season, clubs will have to be careful not to cut themselves off from the main players, as each week of additional confinement seriously complicates the idea of ​​consensus on a potential recovery schedule.

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