In sport this weekend, there is the Top 14 with Racing 92 – Stade Toulousain on Saturday (2:30 p.m.), Ligue 1 with TFC – Auxerre on Sunday (5 p.m.), the two matches to be experienced in full on France Bleu Occitanie. But there is also the French Football cup and its exploits that we love so much. We call it the “magic of the cup”. Ligue 1 clubs will enter the next round next month. In the meantime, there remains one surviving club in Midi-Pyrénées, it is Union Saint-Jean to the north-east of Toulouse.
The amateurs play in the 6th division (Regional one) and welcome this Saturday (6 p.m.) the professionals from Versailles, a National club, three divisions above. It will be complicated but they believe in it like their defender Paul-Alexandre Cachart. He is a video analyst at TFC and works in a school. And he is enjoying the excitement around this match. “It's the whole context and everything that's around, the people when I go to Téfécé, etc. People talk to me about it in the morning. In fact, I also work in a school. When I go to school, people talk to me about it, students talk to me about it all the time, it's great, there are no other words. We can't wait to be there. be there. It's just the opponent that changes. are players who make it their job. We don't. It's up to us to create the feat. We see it, sometimes, it's the others and it often happens to the others. who come out of N2, N2 who come out of Ligue 1 or Ligue 2, etc. And there, it’s up to us.”
At the club, it's excitement. Never in its history has the club reached this stage of the competition against such a strong opponent. The 1,500 places are going like hot cakes. Union Saint-Jean – Versailles is Saturday 6 p.m. at the Union stadium. There are still a few places left.
Already 5 years ago, Union Saint-Jean reached the previous round, beaten by Bayonne. It is also to experience these kinds of moments that in 2018 the Union and St Jean clubs merged, recalls co-president Jérôme Sudriez. So far Union Saint-Jean has beaten lower ranked teams this season. The players hope to achieve a feat tomorrow and continue to write the recent history of their club.
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