Football: which team to face the Monegasque ogre in the Coupe de France?

As a rock rises in front of the players of L’Union Saint-Jean this Sunday, December 22 in the Coupe de France, we have chosen to focus on the amateur squad of the red and black club.

USJFC will face AS Monaco, on the verge of qualifying for the knockout phase of the Champions League. The meeting will take place at the Stadium this Sunday, December 22. Kick-off at 2:45 p.m.

This is of course a great first for the players of the local team. The group consists of 24 footballers. Grégory Sorroche, the coach, will have to rack his brains to put only 18 names on the match sheet.

The average age of the group is 24.6 years. The dean, Benoit Mathon, is 35 years old. He shares his experience with Mathieu Rigaudy, a young 18-year-old sales apprentice and the youngest member of the group. During the entire week preceding the match, everyone will normally go to work, whether they are sales representatives, real estate agents, entertainers, working in the banking sector, public works or even students. It’s a daily life far from that of Monegasque players.

But among them, some have experienced the high level, leaving training centers such as Estac, Sochaux, the TFC known to Mathias Capdeville, scorer in the previous round, or even Montpellier, which trained Jonathan Rafion, also scorer against Versailles.

Others are young people from the club, notably Andréa Duhayer or Mathieu Rigaudy. It is now up to them to live an experience that they would never have considered just a few weeks ago: playing against AS Monaco. On to the match.