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French football fights to avoid collapse

2020-10-27T18:39:04.511Z


The dispute between Ligue 1 and Mediapro and the lack of ticketing plunged French clubs into turmoil.Almost empty stadiums, a deadbeat broadcaster and clubs as worried as they are annoyed by the crisis of recent months. Like all sectors of society, football is suffering, pitching and wondering about the months to come. "This pandemic weighs on us, this football does not dream of many people, without atmosphere, without heat , summarizes Laurent Nicollin, president of Montpellier. On weekends in f


Almost empty stadiums, a deadbeat broadcaster and clubs as worried as they are annoyed by the crisis of recent months.

Like all sectors of society, football is suffering, pitching and wondering about the months to come.

"This pandemic weighs on us, this football does not dream of many people, without atmosphere, without heat

, summarizes Laurent Nicollin, president of Montpellier.

On weekends in front of my television, I don't vibrate more than that.

But we must move forward, thousands of jobs are at stake. That goes for cinema, culture and football

.

"

And the son of the late and earthy" Loulou "adds optimist:

" Today it rains, tomorrow it will be sunny

.

"

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After having definitively stopped its season in mid-March, Ligue 1 resumed at the end of August, rejoicing to benefit from Mediapro's TV rights as soon as possible.

The new broadcaster had won the tender in a sensational way in May 2018

(the Sino-Spanish group has committed to pay 814 M € per season over the period 2020-2024, Editor's note).

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Source: lefigaro

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