In an interview with our colleagues from Ouest-France, the former president of OL, Jean-Michel Aulas, admitted to spending a lot of time with an amateur club. To rediscover what he had known at the end of the 80s.
We see it less, certainly. And in the media field, he is relatively discreet. We are talking here about Jean-Michel Aulas, the former president of OL, who, as you know, sold his long-time club to the American John Textor. Now it's time for the promotion of women's Football, and the ticket he joined with Philippe Diallo for the latter's reappointment at the head of the French Football Federation.
What we knew less, and which we discovered through an interview given to our colleagues from Ouest-France, is that Jean-Michel Aulas has returned to service in a club. Not professional, but amateur: the Awakening of Lyon. And obviously, he limits neither his time nor his pleasure.
“It allows me to find this football again”
“I serve as an instigator, a guide, and I participate in the life of the club. I spend all my Saturday mornings there, whether with the volunteers at the refreshment bar, the educators or the president. I'm a crazy amateur football fan. It allows me to rediscover this football, a bit in the spirit of OL when I arrived in 1987, when professional football was much less developed. I am in direct contact with the educators, the president, the volunteers… L'Éveil de Lyon still has 1,200 members. And it allows me to know amateur football from an operational perspective, which was not the case. »
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