the sport of Alençon and Orne orphaned by a great volunteer figure

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What he wanted above all was to offer sport for everyone, and to offer it to everyone.

A tireless volunteer for numerous sporting events in and around Alençon (Orne), Didier Piche died of a heart attack on Wednesday November 13, 2024. He was 75 years old.

Founder of ASTMNA

Didier Piche was therefore a man of sport and great value. He combined the two within the Maine-Normands Alençonnais Workers' Sports Association (ASTMNA), which he founded in 2013.

In Alençon, the ASTMNA offers more than twenty sporting activities at low prices every week. Badminton, gymnastics, hiking, yoga or even walking football, one of the latest disciplines set up by the former footballer, which allows you to kick the ball at any age.

ASTMNA's purpose is “inclusion, accessibility and sharing”. Values ​​that its founder defended through sport with more than 40 years of volunteering in the country of Alençon.

He did not count the hours he gave to his passion. What he did know was that there were hundreds of them every year. “When you love, you don’t count!” », he liked to repeat.

“Committed and over-committed volunteer”

Just a few days ago, he came to greet the editorial staff of L'Orne Hebdo.

He wanted to talk about ASTMNA, obviously, and was amused at having found an old fire truck for his club.

He also spoke about the Orne FSGT committee, of which he was one of the members of the board, and, if sporting performance was never his main credo, was more broadly interested in all Alençon sports.

Clubs and organizers of sporting events have paid tribute to Didier Piche on social networks, notably the Trail d'Écouves, of which he was also a “volunteer from the start” and member of the office.

“If sport is today an essential vector of solidarity, inclusion and social bond, it is because its values ​​have always been defended by committed and over-invested volunteers. [Didier Piche] embodied and defended his values ​​so well,” greet his colleagues at Trail d’Écouves.

Didier did not count his time for sport and community life in Alençon, always responding to requests from the various events in the region. We are orphans of a great figure in Ornese sport.

To his family, his loved ones and all his “friends” from the FSGT, ASTMNA and sport in Alençon, L’Orne Hebdo presents its most sincere condolences.

The funeral of Didier Piche will be celebrated at the Saint-Léonard d'Alençon church, Wednesday, November 20, 2024, at 10 a.m.

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