Our series Words of promoted in Ligue 1:
The Ligue 1 season resumes in a few days.
With, from this Friday, August 5, a clash between Lyon, in full reconstruction, and Ajaccio, which (re) discovers the happiness of the elite.
Forgotten the festivities of the rise, the Corsican club will come up against the reality of a Ligue 1 which, this season, will not give any gift.
Passage to 18 clubs obliges, there will indeed be 4 descents next June.
Enough to shake the three promoted, Ajaccio, therefore, but also AJ Auxerre and Toulouse FC.
Before the first shivers, and the anxieties that will undoubtedly soon come to pollute their weeks, we have decided to immerse you in the daily life of these "little ones" who will watch PSG from afar struggle (or not) with its dolphins.
Stories of promoted - with AJA, which travels to Lille on Sunday, Ajaccio, therefore, and Toulouse Football Club, which also receives Nice on Sunday -, whose primary ambition in the coming months will be to maintain themselves.
Have a good trip !
Auxerre, behind the scenes of the eternal elite Gallic village
"He is frankly underrated", Olivier Pantaloni, the eternal figure of Ajaccio
“We are a multicultural team”, explains the Belgian captain of Toulouse
Sometimes he hits the road.
About forty minutes of ascent by car towards the interior of Corsica and its mountains.
At the end, his village of Bastelica.
“Our family home is up there, it dates from the 1600s,” he describes in a soft voice and a calm tone, a habit with him.
At an altitude of more than 800 m, Olivier Pantaloni is moving away from the coast, its tourists and the worries of coaching AC Ajaccio.
The few breaks are never very long.
His life as a coach and his constraints call him down.
Especially since this season, his club is back in Ligue 1 for the first time in eight years.
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