Le Mans FC. A virtual week to recreate the link. Sport

Since November, the life of clubs has been impacted by the Covid-19 and the in camera. It is not easy to coordinate relations between the team, supporters and partners. However, at Le Mans FC, we are trying to find other ways to get together. Between Wednesday February 24 and Wednesday March 3, Le Mans FC will bring together its partners, employees and subscribers… online.

Three evenings are on the program, always at 6.30 p.m.: for partners on the 24th, employees and volunteers on the 26th, and subscribers on March 3. All, in the presence of Thierry Gomez president, and / or with the staff and the players. For the subscribers Didier Ollé-Nicolle, Jérémy Choplin and Pierre Lemonnier, the captains, will be in particular.

“We suffer the virus like everyone else, specifies Thierry Gomez. Especially in sport where there is proximity in the stadium, a place of exchange, of sharing. We want to create links, this is one of the club’s objectives. We will try to do it via this connected week, with an online platform, to create a privileged event for our partners, club employees, and subscribers. “ On the program, he promises: “Information, but also exchange, without filters, and more fun activities. “

Relaunch the link

The idea came as the in camera continues to length. Despite the ban for the public to attend matches, the life of professional clubs must also continue: “Normally, in January, we have our partner evening, which we hoped to be able to organize in person. But with the evolutions of companies with digital, the tools that exist, we said to ourselves that we could jump at the opportunity to recreate the link, in the hope of finding the public in March, in April. For us it was the right moment to re-launch this link. “

For Thierry Gomez, the objective is clearly to relaunch relations with this world which revolves around the club: “We think we can attract people. By the scheduled time, 6.30 p.m. and also the computer facilities. On the partners, it responded very quickly. Now we will launch those for employees and subscribers. Internally, we know that it has had some success. It recreated a link in the club, between the players, the staff, the employees. “

The club president warns, however, that such operations could happen again in the future: “We are not the last to carry out general public operations. One thinks of the Christmas of the club with the children made redundant in the Sarthois clubs, which bring together up to 13,000 young people. We are the flagship football club of the department, and we have to be close to our supporters. There it will be in digital form. The link is there, as we saw when we left for Bastia. The supporters are still there. “

And to insist on the social mission of a club: “We talk a lot about the financial consequences of Covid, sometimes we forget the psychological ones, and sometimes the loss of connection. We really want to find this human side. “

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