Even the stewards, overwhelmed, sketched a smile in this joyous mess.
On May 20, Auxerre qualified for the Ligue 1 play-off (0-0, 5-4 on penalties against Sochaux), which they won a few days later against Saint-Étienne.
Scenes of jubilation and invasion of the lawn that Lucien Denis, former defender of AJA (1976-1983) converted into the media, will not soon forget.
“I saw people sing, dance on the lawn, carry the players
, relates the one who has been a figure in the club for more than forty years.
We had tears in our eyes.
I lived everything here, the title of champion of France, the Champions League.
But I had never seen that.”
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“The popular enthusiasm here, I had never experienced it elsewhere”,
adds Jean-Marc Furlan, 64-year-old coach, in post at AJA since 2019 and passed through Brest, Troyes or Strasbourg.
Club legend (and beyond), Guy Roux, interviewed by
Le Figaro,
goes further:
“There was a craze…
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