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Castex announcements: amateur sport looks gray

2020-11-28T00:53:27.434Z


No recovery before mid-December for minors and January 20 for adults. Licensed team sports enthusiasts will have to


A cold snap for millions of team sports licensees.

During his press conference this Thursday morning, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced that "adults will not be able to resume team and contact sports before January 20", the date of phase III of deconfinement.

A delay that risks calling into question certain competitions such as the French Football Cup, the 6 th, 7 th and 8 th rounds of which, not to mention late matches of the 5 th round (including Le Mée - Red Star), should have take place by the end of December.

We will also have to review the championship calendars.

For the training of minors, it will be from December 15.

The minister wants to reopen the stadiums on December 15

Not easy to consider the rest of a season that will inevitably be turned upside down.

The Deputy Minister of Sports, for her part, defended a reopening of the stadiums from December 15.

“They are ready,” says Roxana Maracineanu.

It is this word that I am going to convey to the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic.

When we wear a mask or when we have a seat or two seats away from our neighbor in large enclosures, it may be quite possible to come and support our high-level athletes at the time of the matches that could take place during Christmas holidays.

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Deconfinement: "No team sports for adults before January 20", announces Jean Castex

For Emmanuel Dorado, the trainer of Sainte-Geneviève (N2, the equivalent of the 4th Division), “a restart on January 20 for adults and December 15 for minors, it's completely ridiculous.

These decisions give rise to many more questions and questions.

It's a big mess.

We keep the guys going with personalized training.

We can do this for a month, but not three!

Once again, we are subjected to events.

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Football clubs in "the fog"

In Fleury-Mérogis (N2), Habib Boumezoued, whose team has around twenty federal contracts (the equivalent of professional contracts for amateurs), and who therefore has the opportunity to train legally, is also in the waiting.

“We have a partial activity that looks like individual sessions,” says the Essonne technician.

We are waiting for the decision of the FFF and we will execute.

But the time is long and it will be difficult to finish everything.

"For Mohamed Tazamoucht (Ivry, N3), the urgency is to resume the championship.

“We have to play, even if we are not ready.

We must stop pretending to be pros.

Let's play first.

There may be injuries like every season.

It's a shame, I was convinced that we could have made up for our delay with the Christmas holidays by playing on December 19 and 26 and January 3.

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“Three months off, or an average of 12 postponed matches minimum, calculates Himmed Hamma, the co-trainer of Bobigny (N2).

If we add four necessary weeks of preparation, that gives us 19 weekends to go until the end of June so there will be no more postponement possibilities.

Even if we eliminate the Coupe de France, that will not be enough.

Financially, the clubs will suffocate… ”

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Abdellah Oubbana, the technician of Mée (R1), who must play the Red Star (National) in a late match of the… 5th round of the Coupe de France, has a reason: “I think it's dead for the Cup .

And it can be very complicated for the championship too.

We did not see our players for six months during the first confinement, there it will be three months for the second, it is difficult to keep them concerned.

Now it's just football.

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In rugby, we want to prioritize "safety"

Much more than the January 20 resumption, it is the green light set for December 15 for minors that gets stuck for amateurs.

“We thought our kids could resume training this Saturday,” assures Djaid Makouf, president of Pontault-Combault (Federal 2, 4th Division).

It is incomprehensible to have to wait until December 15th.

Basically, they're going to train once and then it's vacation time.

»Originally scheduled to resume on January 9, the Federal 2 and Federal 3 championships will have to be found on another resumption date.

"It is certain," continues Makouf.

If we start training on January 20, the competition will not be able to take place before the end of February-beginning of March.

The safety of the players is at stake.

In any case, this is not good news.

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Basketball, hand, volleyball: a "common" approach for young people

On the handball side, "our primary desire is the return of young people in the halls from December 15 and, to do this, we would like the gymnasiums to reopen, especially during the Christmas holidays," said Federation president Joël Delplanque .

He specifies that “this approach is led by the three major team sports, basketball, handball and volleyball, and that it has a naturally and social sporting dimension aimed at young people.

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The Handball Federation has already made progress since it has established a resumption schedule for its national competitions: training on December 15 and competitions on January 9 for young people up to the age of 18;

resumed on January 20 and matches on February 6 and 7 for the N1M, N2M and N3M N1F and N2F.

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