"I'm going to have fun": Brahim Asloum takes over the general management of Levallois SC

At 42 years old, Brahim Asloum is starting a new life.

For a few hours now, with the president of the club Ingrid Desmedt, he has been at the head of a considerable company.

He is the new general manager of one of the biggest sports clubs in France, one of the biggest in the world too: the Levallois Sporting Club.

The half-fly Olympic boxing champion in 2000 in Sydney and WBA half-fly world champion from 2007 to 2009 heads an association bringing together more than 16,000 licensees, 33 sections and as many disciplines ranging from aikido volleyball through basketball, football and boxing of course.

Teddy Riner, Marie-Claire Restoux, Jean-Philippe Gatien and Laura Flessel among others wore the colors of an omni club which, since the beginning of the 1980s, has offered 28 Olympic medals and 156 world charms to French sport.

Brahim Asloum, whose portrait adorns the entrance to the city's Palais Marcel-Cerdan, exclusively explains why he takes on the heavy responsibilities of a sprawling entity.

Why do you become general manager of the club omnisports de Levallois?

BRAHIM ASLOUM.

Because it was offered to me, which is the best reason and it is very pleasant.

The mayor Agnès Pottier-Dumas and the president of the LSC Ingrid Desmedt asked me to take on this function.

So I am not elected but appointed.

There is a desire on the part of the city, as it has always done, to develop sport more and more and for me, it is quite magical that through my career as an athlete and as a business manager. I can embark on this exceptional project by being able to touch so many other disciplines than mine.

What does the Levallois Sporting Club represent?

An exceptional and incredible tool, the biggest multisport club in France.

Taking care of 33 different sections is a great opportunity for me.

All these disciplines have their own infrastructures which is also exceptional.

I want to give even more visibility to the players in the sport of Levallois.

My job is to lead club sports policy in short and it is a very exciting challenge.

How do you see it?

With enthusiasm and energy, people who know me can confirm this.

I will be confronted with problems and I will have to find solutions and synergies.

I'm going to have a blast, I'm sure.

It's a great adventure that begins.

It's great that an athlete finds himself at the head of such a powerful and prestigious tool.

I will learn a lot and I hope to offer as much

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What visibility do you want to give to Levallois SC?

I want to put big events in place.

I already have some ideas in particular, but not only!

In boxing that I know well through the Marcel-Cerdan sports hall.

It's a mission that excites me for which I want to do so many beautiful things in competitive sport as well as recreational sport or that for people with disabilities because I don't want to forget anyone.

What is your link with Levallois?

I have never been made redundant at LSC.

But I lived eight years of my life in this city that I know very well.

When I signed up to start my professional career, I got my first accommodation in Levallois.

The city has always been active for boxing and I have also boxed a lot in Cerdan.

What does it mean to be at the head of such a large structure three years from the 2024 Olympic Games?

It's a great dynamic and I want to offer beautiful things.

I want our athletes to be involved in all possible competitions for these Games.

I would like there to be an Olympic team identified as coming from Levallois.

We are “Land of Games”.

So if Paris 2024 needs rooms, help, anything, Levallois will always be there.

For me, it will be a question of being present at this event to promote sport, promote Levallois by welcoming, for example, other nations.

I want to open the LSC to the international level in all the sports we cover by promoting all possible exchanges for national and international competitions.