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[Sport] SURVEY. Who would you see as President of the Reunion Football League?

January 24, 2021 will be marked by the election of the new president of the Reunion Football League. The Journal of Reunion Island offers, for a little fun, a survey featuring eleven personalities emblematic of the sport-king, declared candidates or not. Note that these eleven names were selected by the sports editorial staff of the JIR, without the interested parties being informed. So who is more popular than Yves Ethève?

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1. Jacky Amanville

The corridors of Champ-Fleuri hold no secrets for Jacky Amanville. Faithful right-hand man of Ethève, the Saint-Joséphois is the current vice-president of the LRF, a position he already occupied in the past. Figure of the round ball in the Wild South as a leader, the former president of the WHO of Saint-Jo ‘has dedicated his life to the Excelsior which he has chaired for three years and which he helped to hoist in 32nd of the Coupe de France for the only time in its history.

2. Luçay Arayapin

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The supreme ambition may not be his, but Luçay Arayapin, who stealthily tasted power as an elected member of the league’s executive committee, has demonstrated his legitimacy in the community by writing the most beautiful pages of the league. he history of Saint-Louisienne between 1995 and 2002, then of Saint-Pierroise for the past five years, as president. Passionate but uncompromising, even if it means conveying an austere image, the businessman knows how to unite through his managerial skills.

3. Alex Augustine

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His list is long overdue, but Alex Augustine is to date the only publicly declared candidate, failing to be administratively. The former Le Havre scorer in the 70s, arrived in Reunion 35 years ago and has never left. Player, educator, member of the league… and a true free spirit: he has achieved the feat of having resigned from the management committees of Ethève and Vidot, proof of his own convictions.

4. Abdoul Cadjee

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His place in this eleven was unavoidable, so his name is associated with the golden age of Reunion football. President of the JS Saint-Pierroise at the end of the 80s and beginning of the 90s, Abdoul Cadjee had marked the spirits by signing in the local championship the Mondialiste Roger Milla and the golden ball Jean-Pierre Papin. A little later, he managed to hoist the Chaudron, a neighborhood club in the city of Saint-Denis within the elite Péi. In the meantime, he had won the bets to bring back to the island, Kaiser Frantz Benckenbauer, as well as Paris SG and Olympique Lyonnais for memorable prestige matches. If he has turned to other activities since, he remains a great fan of football.

5. Jean-Jacques Charolais

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The former director of the interim agency will remain the president to have installed the Saint-Pauloise at the top of local football over time. In five years, the character with strong words, more authentic than atypical, has recorded two league titles, two victories in the Coupe de France and a Coupe de la Réunion to his record. A great fan of sport in general and in particular of the round ball, he is also known to be the friend of Zinédine Zidane whom he had convinced to come and inaugurate the new Olympic stadium in Saint-Paul for a prestigious match under the colors of France 98. It is not only because you always need a great in a team, that it appears in this eleven. And this, even if for personal reasons, he has moved away from the middle for five years.

6. Yves Dupuy

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Former regional coach, he took off in Le Havre at the head of the pre-training of the oldest club of French football, before returning to the island to launch the regional training center which later became the Federal Hope Pole of the LRF. Key man in the partnership between the JS Saint-Pierroise and the HAC which allowed a good number of pei talents to take off, he had swapped the habit of technician for that of candidate for the presidency of the League four years ago . Third in the election behind Noël Vidot and Yves Ethève, Yves Dupuy continues to work for his passion, in his own way, with complete discretion.

7. Yves Ethève

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The boss since 1983. 37 years of reign, with a single parenthesis of two years, following the cancellation of the 2012 ballot in November 2014. Only justice will therefore have been right of the indestructible president of the league with a marked personality and easy punchlines, handily re-elected by the clubs in 2016, and which still maintains the suspense about a new candidacy at 74 years old. A false suspense, of course, when you know his dedication and his passion for the sport-king.

8. Dominique Goumane

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Head of the list in 2012, vice-president of the league in 2015 under the short Noël Vidot era, Dominique Goumane has already led the battle against Yves Ethève. But he was also the partner, during the 2008 Olympiad before resigning in 2011. If he now intervenes sporadically in the public debate, the current sports director of the city of Saint-André does not remain. less an active football activist that he served as a player and coach, even writing beautiful pages of his history locally, at the Tamponnaise or even in the selection of Reunion.

9. Ismaël Locate

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The benchmark on the African scene. It was under her impetus that Reunionese football asserted itself successfully on the black continent from the 90s, in clubs but also in youth and women’s selections. An instructor at FIFA, he still occupies a major role in the local community, particularly in exchanges with countries in the zone and elsewhere. Teammate and then historical opponent of Yves Ethève in 1996 and 2000, he is one of the characters who have contributed to the evolution of pei football.

10. Johnny Payet

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Still unknown in the community in 2012, the business manager rose through the ranks at great speed. Finalist of the Coupe de France in his first year at the head of Joan of Arc, the native of the Plaine des Palmistes did it again a few years later, better, at the helm of AS Excelsior, with the added bonus of a memorable 32nd final in Lille. Elected to the LRF steering committee the same year, he completed his term in January during which he was second vice-president of the local football institution. Recognized for his rigorous management, he returned to business at Joan of Arc this season. He embodies the new generation.

11. Noël Vidot

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Candidate for his own succession four years ago, the former professional footballer who passed through Le Havre and Nîmes in particular, should again register in the race for the presidency of the League, which he held from October 2015 to December 2016. If he has not yet officially positioned himself, the former coach of Réunion, gold medalist at the 2007 Islands Games in Madagascar, recently confided in our columns: “We started the change in 2016 . To always be in contact with the community, I can assure you that it will continue. ” There is a good chance he will be a candidate on January 24.

Mickaël Payet and Anthony Robinson

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