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
Two years later, here they are again.
Demoted to Ligue 2 in 2020 at the end of a season cut short by the health crisis, Toulouse only took two years to see the elite again.
And the Téfécé, roadblocker in 2021, validated the ticket brilliantly.
Ligue 2 champion, best attack with 82 goals, top scorer (Rhys Healey) and best passer (Branco van der Boomen)… the Haute-Garonne club, now owned by the American pension fund Redbird Capital Partners, has rebuilt itself an image based on an internationally oriented and data-driven recruitment.
Belgian Brecht Dejaegere, at the club since 2020 and captain last season, tells us about life in the locker room.
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