From September 15, France 3 Île-de-France will broadcast the program “Les héros du gazon”, which will follow the journey of an amateur football team whose level of play is pitiful to see.
“You deserve to hold on. I’ve been telling you for two and a half months that you’re going to hold on. The problem is not so much whether I’m going to look like an idiot, it’s whether you have the intellectual, physical, and technical capacity to do it! You have to do it now, not tomorrow, not yesterday.”. By the admission of his transcended players, this single speech given by Pascal Dupraz before a decisive match against Angers allowed Toulouse Football Club to snatch its survival in Ligue 1, during the 2015-2016 season. Just like Laurent Ruquier at one time, the directors of France Télévisions probably remembered this speech that went down in history to name the charismatic leader of men as the savior of a desperate mission.
Five matches to save a team from relegation
The Savoyard will take charge of the Fontenay-le-Vicomte team, in Essonne, one of the worst in France, whose development viewers of France 3 Île-de-France will be able to follow in “Les héros du gazon”, broadcast from September 15. In this format taken from Belgian television, a seasoned coach is appointed to the bench of a club in very bad shape to try to straighten it out over a given period. For this French version, it is therefore Pascal Dupraz, a “tough guy with a tender heart”, who will play the firefighter on duty in order to help this team with a porous defense keep its place in its division….
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