The "Drought Guide" presented last week by the government does not spare sports activities and water-intensive recreation. They too will have to play the sobriety card. In a state of "drought crisis" triggered by the prefect, sports fields and racecourses can no longer be watered during the day. Including those used for training and competitions "at national or international stake", which until then benefited from a complete derogation. Their operators will now have to "provide for significantly reduced watering and prohibited between 9 a.m. and 20 p.m."
Managers did not wait for these announcements to look for alternative solutions. In support of the communities that own the pitches, the French Football Federation (FFF) has moved up a gear in the financing of synthetic pitches via its Amateur Football Assistance Fund (Fafa). This is the case, for example, in Haute-Marne
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