Smarter than the lynx.
In the first episode of the year 2025 of the podcast Alternative FootballChristophe Chenut tries to answer a question: what are administrators used for in football clubs? The former general director of The Team knows the subject very well having been in several clubs in France, after his adventure as president of Stade de Reims, such as PSG, Évian Thonon Gaillard, Stade Rennes or even LOSC, where he is currently.
A bad trick at PSG on Tuesday evening at 11 p.m.
During this exchange, he notably delivers an anecdote dating back to 2019, at the time when he sat on the board of directors of the Breton club, of which his great friend Olivier Létang was the deputy president. “When we are in Rennes, the year we win the Coupe de France, we qualify for the final by winning in Lyon on Tuesday evening. The second half is on Wednesday, between Nantes and PSG, and there is a good chance that Paris will be our opponent.he begins.
So far, nothing too surprising. Christophe Chenut then returns to the choice of the establishment where to stay on the day of the final, explaining that it was not insignificant: « Olivier (Létang) was at PSG for five years, they made X Coupe de France and Coupe de la Ligue finals, and each time, Paris reserved the same hotel, in Enghien. On Tuesday evening, at 11 p.m., at the end of the match against Lyon, he books the hotel for Rennes. It seems stupid, but behind it you tell the players: you are in the winners' hotel. You fight over it, and the Parisians don't have their bearings. All the details count. » The rest, everyone knows it.
The Rennais know which hotel to book when they have to travel to Paris to face the PFC in the play-off next May.
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