“The victories of the French team at Euro 1984 and 2000 were real highlights in the history of the newspaper”recalls in the preamble Lionel Dangoumau, editorial director of the newspaper The Team. Present at every major meeting, the L’Équipe group will be no exception during Euro 2024 (June 14-July 14), in Germany. Here is its entire device.
A long format on Kylian Mbappé and a documentary on Paul Pogba
The group’s various media will offer original content in the weeks and days preceding the start of the Euro. A special issue dedicated to Michel Platini will appear on May 24. In addition to returning to the Blues’ first European title, it will tell the story of the number 10 star’s year 1984 more broadly. On June 8, the L’Équipe Magazine will offer a complete guide to this 2024 edition (teams, calendars, etc.). On digital, a long format L’Équipe explores, entitled “In Mbappé’s head” and available on June 10, will delve into the psyche of the captain of the Blues.
The L’Équipe channel will not be left out. This Thursday, May 16, a special day will be dedicated to the announcement of the list by Didier Deschamps. And, before the start of the competition, a documentary by L’Équipe investigates, “Paul Pogba: toxic connections”will be broadcast. “We wanted to tell the story of Paul Pogba’s personality by looking back at his youth, his football career and the attempted racketeering of which he was the victim.presents the author of the documentary, Sébastien Tarrago. Our ambition is to tell in detail what happened. »
21 journalists on site and 12 daily pages in the newspaper
From June 14, 18 reporters and 3 photographers will be close to the action in Germany to cover the competition. “Our main mission is to inform about the French teaminsists Yves Leroy, head of the football section. We will be both specialists via debriefs and data, but also general public by telling the story behind the scenes of the event. »
Every day, the newspaper will devote twelve pages to covering the competition with, on match days for Didier Deschamps’ selection, columns by Bixente Lizarazu. Readers will be able to ask their questions live to the special correspondents via chats. It will also be possible to perfect your knowledge of the game and the protagonists with the podcast Big Fivebiweekly during the competition, and “tactical shows” on Twitch and YouTube.
Jean-Louis Leca new consultant of the channel
From June 12, the L’Équipe channel will switch to German time with four daily shows to experience the Euro seven days a week. In the three programs introduced this season (The choc team, Greg’s Team And The evening team), will be added The football team in the middle of the day, presented by Messaoud Benterki. Fourteen consultants will take turns on set, including a newcomer: Jean-Louis Leca, the RC Lens goalkeeper. Three special envoys (Sébastien Tarrago, Bertrand Latour and Jérémy Jeanningros) will be in Germany.
“We are a complementary chain thanks to our side steps before, at half-time and after matches”, underlines Jérôme Saporito, director of the channel. Seventeen big evenings are planned to vibrate, L’Équipe style, alongside four commentators (Yoann Riou, Candice Rolland, Julien Aliane and Bruno Salomon) during paid broadcasts (if M6 and TF1 will broadcast, between them, 25 posters , the paying rights for the entire competition have not yet been allocated in France).
July 14 will mark the end of the Euro with the final in Berlin (9 p.m.) but the L’Équipe channel will not completely cut away from football. The Euro U19 women’s (July 14-27) and men’s (July 15-28) will in fact be broadcast immediately, the channel having recently acquired the rights.
