When we finish at 5e place of a football championship, we generally have more regrets for not having managed to move up to the higher division than the anxiety of being retained for the following season.
However, relegation is what almost happened to FC Déols, which, due to the overhaul of the national championships and the relegations of Romorantin and Avoine-Chinon (from N2 to N3), could have found itself downgraded to Regional 2 if the Centre – Val de Loire league had not proposed a vote for the move from 12 to 14 clubs in R1, a vote approved by 84.38%!
“Going down would have been unbearable”
“It is a measure which only corrects an injustice, was blowing on the sidelines of the general assembly which was held this Friday, June 28, 2024 at the Jean-Bizet stadium, the deputy president Francis Gautron. Finishing in the top 5 and going down would have been unbearable…”
This reform, which will last until 2026, therefore delights the people of Déolois and adds to a balance sheet that Francis Gautron judges “very good. Because we also won the Coupe de l’Indre (against Montgivray, 4-0), the Coupe du Berry (against the Portuguese of Bourges, 4-1) and our U18s, U16s and U14s who all play in R2 finished in the top half of the table. With the bonus of the Coupe l’Indre and a semi-final of the Coupe CVL for the U18s.”
If the senior reserve was demoted to R3, which is not a tragedy given the youth of its squad, team 3 could return to D3, “provided it is composed of motivated elements”, said Francis Gautron, which will avoid a general forfeit after five matches like last fall.
Four departures for six arrivals
Obviously, next season will also have been a question and despite the significant reduction in the budget (from €300,000 to €250,000), FC Déols will continue to have ambition. This is what transpires in the recruitment led by sports director Vincent Bernardet (1), which should allow coach Medhi Boudaoud (currently on vacation) to field a great team. Note that his deputy will be Franck Béguin.
As for the reserve, it will be coached by Frédéric Berthelot, assisted by Sébastien Jouannin.
(1) Departures: Ouail Amhine (?), Doua Dembélé (Berrichonne), Youssef Bouargoub (Nanterre), Axel Senez (?). Arrivals: Malan Tambo (forward, Chambray), Théo Beauciel (goalkeeper, Montlouis), Djibril Soumaré (defender, Paris region), Mathéus Goualard (midfielder, Paris region), Steevy Kialunda (midfielder, Paris region), Maamadou Kébé (forward, Paris region ).
The synthetic will wait for the next term
She had promised to stay for a quarter of an hour, but her exchange with the assembly ultimately lasted nearly 40 minutes. Mayor Delphine Geneste, in office for three years, first had to explain the absence of a synthetic pitch, where other clubs of the same level and size as Déols (350 members) have one. “We are starting a feasibility study, and it must be understood that it takes time. It is a cost of €1 million of which we can hope, at the very most, 50% in subsidies. For a town of 7,000 inhabitants that cannot go beyond €2 million of investments per year, it is enormous. Frankly, it will not be before the next mandate (2026).”
For this equipment, the regularly dry “La Ringoire” watercourse will be an additional problem when it comes to irrigating it. “And believe me, there is no longer any question of doing anything with water. It’s too valuable an item. We screwed up (sic) two years in a row by circumventing the ban order and when the prefect gave me a charge one Friday evening, I promised myself that I would not be caught again. »
Convinced that she is already doing a lot for this club that her children attended, Delphine Geneste recalled the annual subsidy of €50,000, the provision of three and a half agents (€150,000 gross annually) as well as the financing of the clubhouse which came to replace the shed burned down (€357,000, including €100,000 covered by insurance.” And the elected official concluded her remarks by recalling that the finances “of a municipality like ours are not a bottomless pit and that it We must also think about other associations such as shooting or those who use gymnasiums for other sports.”
