As if it wanted to celebrate its arrival in the French audiovisual landscape, the Téléfoot channel is broadcasting a program this Friday entitled "The New Era". This in-house production, in "Inside" format - which is not a documentary - was produced by Jean-Philippe Huneau and inaugurates a genre that Téléfoot intends to develop on its antenna.
Coronavirus epidemic
"New era" obviously deals with professional football immersed unwittingly in the great upheaval imposed by the appearance of the coronavirus epidemic. The director takes his camera to French clubs and gives the floor to the players in Ligue 1.
"I attended Lille-Lyon, the last match that was played", remembers Didier Quillot. "We are at war," proclaims Emmanuel Macron. "I understood immediately that we were entering a very complicated period", continues the general manager of the Professional Football League.
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Several coaches of professional teams, who reveal to have exchanged in a WhatsApp group created for the occasion, tell about the life of the clubs, seen from the inside. “We had to make a decision, breathes Christophe Galtier. From there, it was very hard… ”
“An error of 1.2 billion euros in losses for French football, asserts Jean-Michel Aulas, without tongue in cheek, facing the camera. Tremendous mistake. "
70 speakers and unpublished sequences
With more than 70 speakers and unprecedented sequences in the heart of clubs, "Nouvelle Era" plunges into the heart of clubs that have had to make urgent decisions. Thierry Lauret, Florent Balmont, Bernard Joanin, Jérémy Pied, Christohe Jallet, Mathieu Bodmer, Grégory Coupet, Stéhane Moulin, Gérard Lopez, Loïc Perrin, Julien Stéphan, Vagner Dias, Jean-Louis Gasset, Paul Bernardoni, Florian Thauvin… the list of football players who tell the story of the post-coronavirus is long.
The Ligue 1 specialists of Téléfoot's editorial staff - Smaïl Bouabdellah, Eric Huet, Julien Brun… - are omnipresent in this hour-and-a-half, rhythmic and instructive film, which is a relaunch of the season and makes the taste of French football fans.
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