Futsal: Asnières-Villeneuve completes its first Final Four at the foot of the podium

There will have been no miracle for Asnières-Villeneuve.

Drafted at the last minute to play in the Final Four of the Futsal Champions League in Riga (Latvia), a great first for a French club, the Ile-de-France residents came up against a step that was too high for them.

Defeated in the semi-finals by Sporting Portugal (6-2), they lost again in the match for third place against Benfica Lisbon (5-2).

Their baptism therefore ends at the foot of the podium.

📝 El SL Benfica cumple sin alardes ante el ACCS Futsal y amarra el tercer puesto de la @UEFAFutsal (2-5)#FinalFourEnGol #UCLFutsal #LNFS

— LNFS (@LNFS) May 1, 2022

Opposed from the start to the reigning European champion, the French club did not make the weight and found themselves led 3-0 after twelve minutes.

Full of selflessness, he still fought to the end but was too technically dominated to hope for better.

The next day, Sunday, the Lions found another Portuguese club, Benfica Lisbon, narrowly beaten by FC Barcelona, ​​to snatch a top 3. Again, they raced behind all along (1-0 at mid -time) and ended up cracking at the end of the match (5-2).

An unexpected turnout

It will be complicated for them to have regrets: eliminated during the Elite Round, earlier in the season, they should not even have been present during this Final Four.

Asnières-Villeneuve owes its European epic only to the disqualification of the Russian club of Tyumen, which had flown over its group, following the invasion of the war in Ukraine.

His participation is all the more incongruous as the ACCS evolves this year in the second division, after an administrative relegation imposed by the DNCG.

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Created in 2008, the young club saw its finances go into the red last year, in particular because of the Covid-19, even though it won the title of champion of France last June.

Despite the departure of several of his key players, he managed to keep the legend of the discipline Ricardinho, 36, voted six times best player in the world, who did not wish to leave the ship in such a bad position.

For the moment, the ACCS, which has just offered itself a nice showcase in Europe, flies over the second division.

Without knowing if this will be enough to clean up his accounts.