After a spectacular run in the Coupe de France - where he was eliminated by Olympique Lyonnais on penalties in 8th - and a mixed season where he finished 7th in National (3rd division), it is now behind the scenes that the Red Star will experience a turning point in its history. The Saint-Ouen club (Seine-Saint-Denis) will see the start of the renovation work on its legendary Bauer Stadium in Saint-Ouen in the coming days, which will run until 2024. But it will also repatriate its center in the coming weeks. training at the departmental sports park of Marville, on the edge of the La Courneuve park, between Saint-Denis and La Courneuve.
So far, the club's first team has been training in Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine).
The resumption of the season, scheduled for the very end of June, will now take place in the heart of Seine-Saint-Denis.
It is already here that the club's young footballers academy was created in September 2019, with the aim of becoming a training center in the coming years, if the club manages to climb back up to Ligue 2 or even L 1, its goal.
2.4 million euros of works
This Tuesday afternoon, a site visit was organized by the club in the presence of many elected officials, including Stéphane Troussel, the president (PS) of the departmental council, owner of the premises, and Valérie Pécresse, president (Libres!) Of the region Ile-de-France, which financed 50% of the work, the total amount of which is 2.4 million euros.
“As early as 2008
(Editor's note: the year of his arrival at the presidency),
I noticed that it was vital to have infrastructures up to the level of our project, recalled the president of the Red Star, Patrice Haddad.
Let's not forget that football is also played before matches: where the team trains, where it shares, where it is one.
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"You'll Never Walk Alone"
He also greeted all the institutional partners of the club, - from the city of Saint-Ouen to the State, via the department and the region - who have succeeded "in sitting around the table to find lasting solutions »For the club's infrastructure.
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Taking up the anthem of the supporters of Liverpool FC - "You'll Never Walk Alone"
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Valérie Pécresse, candidate for re-election in the region, has thus reaffirmed that the club "would never walk alone".
Departmental sports park of Marville, this Tuesday afternoon.
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At the Marville sports park, where manager Souleymane Camara provided the guided tour, the Red Star will have five fields and will occupy the place on a daily basis, with various living rooms. “For many years, Marville was little or not enough used, and somewhat withdrawn,” recalled Stéphane Troussel, who spoke of an “important signal”, with the establishment of the Red Star, a year after that of the Five, this private group which settled on 33 ha with grounds e inside and outside
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Not to mention the future development of the Olympic swimming pool, a 33 million euro project where water polo athletes will train in 2024, before benefiting the inhabitants of the territory.
With Mathieu Hanotin, his deputy for sports in the department for a few more weeks (and also PS mayor of Saint-Denis), Stéphane Troussel also met the interministerial delegate to the Olympics, Michel Cadot, to discuss the future of the shooting range of the departmental park.
"There is a craze for the practice but also a need for the training of national and municipal police officers," he recalled.
And this space would therefore be very interesting to renovate.
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Currently difficult to access by transport, the Marville park will also be served by a station for the future line 15 of the Grand Paris Express, at the Six-Routes crossroads, with a pedestrian path that will allow direct access.
Its commissioning is expected in 2024.
