“I don’t think we will resume until October”

Thursday will take place a decisive meeting within the FFF. In all likelihood, the stopping of the National 1, National 2, National 3, regional and departmental championships will be decided. The formalization is awaited by many clubs, who now only want one thing: to consider the future and next season. The current crisis will have significant consequences on the world of football, to the point that there is already talk of a football after.

As things stand, if the championships are stopped at time T, several clubs will feel injured. The president of FC Rouen, Fabrice Tardy, reminded us yesterday in an exclusive interview that his club would not go up if the classification was frozen at time T even as the Rouennais spent more than 10 days at the top of their group of National 2. The manager, for more equity, then advocates stopping the championships with a break.

A decision that will not change the fate of JA Drancy. Currently relegated to group A of N2, the club was already in truce. The Sequano-Dionysian coach, aware of his helplessness in the face of the situation, says in Le Parisien that he does not wish to complain and believes that “in any case, there will always be happy and unhappy people. But what can we do? “

“This will put some feet back on the ground to certain clubs”

His players still had 9 games left to keep up. But the technician does not wish to argue and even less to go to court, at the risk of leaving “the door open to anything”. No. The main thing is elsewhere for Philippe Lemaitre. “The most important thing is that football will resume,” he believes. Not this season presumably according to him. Nor during next summer. “I don’t think we will resume until September and that whatever the championship will not resume until October. And, again, some say that the virus will still be present. ”

A future in suspense for amateur football, in the blur of both the conditions of recovery and the financial health of clubs. Concerning the sanitary conditions of recovery, Fabrice Tardy made the decision to control the temperature of all the licensees in the locker room to avoid any risk. Regarding the financial health of clubs, Philippe Lemaitre calls on the Federation: “I hope it will help amateur football. That she will not forget us. It may be necessary to think about the prices of licenses, the costs of referees … This will put feet back on the ground to certain clubs … The economic crisis will affect everyone strongly “.

And if the coach of JA Drancy recalls that “football is and must remain a game”, it will be, after this crisis, to put it back on its feet. And for that, many reflections must be carried out and many decisions will have to be taken.

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