The reunion between Olivier Pants and the Tours FC may ultimately not take place! Indeed, while the meeting of the 32nd finals of the French Cup between the TFC and the FC Lorient was to be held in front of 6,000 to 7,000 impatient spectators at the Stade de la Vallée du Cher, the security conditions were ultimately not satisfactory to the taste of the town hall and the prefecture of Indre-et-Loire, who forced the FFF to cancel the meeting this Saturday, December 22.
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Obviously affected by the situation, he who coached the Touraine club for more than 50 matches (from July 2013 to October 2014), the Lorient coach does not necessarily have an interest in the match being postponed to a later date and played in mid-week during a month of January which already promises to be busy…
“I've never seen that […]. It's a shared feeling: I'm sad for the Tours club, to see it in this situation today, even though it was very healthy when I coached there. But if I look more selfishly from the point of view of FC Lorient, I am relieved not to play this match on a pitch which was expected to be difficult, with risks of injury for my players just before the holidays. And I don't see how the match could be postponed, which means we would have to spend this round on the green carpet. »
Source: The Telegram.
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