There will certainly be much less yellow and green in the stands of Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv than in those of the Stade de France on May 8.
Qualified thanks to its victory in the Coupe de France for the Trophée des Champions, which it will play on July 31 in Israel against Paris Saint-Germain, FC Nantes will not be able to count on the support of one of its main groups. of supporters, the Brigade Loire 1999, which announced this Saturday in a press release its refusal to go there for this match.
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“It is a competition for which the Loire Brigade has already moved, introduces the press release published on the group's website, recalling the two consecutive Champions Trophies disputed in 2000 and 2001 by the Canaries in Sochaux and Strasbourg.
Unfortunately, since 2009, the Professional Football League has chosen to play these matches abroad, thus transforming this competition into a commercial event intended to promote French football and its major championship in countries where an audience would, he, to conquer.
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“This mercantile vision is not ours”
Since 2009, the Champions Trophy has been played twice in Montreal (Canada), Tangier (Morocco) and Shenzen (China) and once in Radès (Tunisia), Harrison (New Jersey, United States), Libreville (Gabon), Beijing (China), Klagenfurt (Austria) and Tel-Aviv (Israel), which will host its second consecutive edition this season.
In 2020, the exceptional circumstances linked to the Covid had allowed the Trophy to return to France, with a PSG-OM played at the Bollaert stadium in Lens.
“This mercantile vision is not ours and this frantic quest for new viewers, even though the most fervent French supporters are considered undesirables or even expelled from the stadiums, is a great lesson in cynicism, continues the Loire Brigade.
For these reasons, the absence of the BRIGADE tarp at the Bloomberg (sic) stadium in Tel Aviv, on July 31, 2022, will be a choice of conviction”.