Football is made to bring people together. There, they proved that for them, it was the opposite.
Dominique Vincendeau, president of Vendée Les Herbiers Football, is not losing his temper. Thursday, November 28 in the morning, he learned of the officialization of the closed session for the Bordeaux – Les Herbiers meeting, Sunday 1is December, as part of the eighth round of the Coupe de France. The match, once planned in Talence, will be played at Bouscat, without spectators, therefore.
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Thursday afternoon, the Vendée club explained on its website: After various meetings between the two clubs, the French Football Federation and the Gironde Prefecture, the latter validated the match without spectators, despite all the efforts of the VHF so that our supporters could attend the match
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“Terribly disappointed and saddened”
The Girondins de Bordeaux, demoted this summer to N2, who had given up organizing the match at Matmut Atlantique for financial reasons, will once again play behind closed doors outside their stadium, as had already been the case during the previous rounds. Les Herbiers took 40,000 people to the Stade de France, and the Gironde prefecture is not capable of controlling two kops of the Girondins de Bordeaux
deplores Dominique Vincendeau, terribly disappointed, saddened. For me, this is a complete misunderstanding
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The Vendée president continues: There were plenty of solutions for football to win, in all of this
. For example, reverse the match and play it at Les Herbiers. Even if we did it three days before, we would have had 120 volunteers, 4,000 people, we would have had a party.
This will therefore not be the case, and the three to four buses of supporters hoped for will not be able to make the trip to Gironde. The Herbret players will attempt another big performance, after the elimination of AC Ajaccio, residents of Ligue 2, in the previous round (2-1).
