The story of an epic. With its ambitions, its setbacks, its doubts and its victory, in the end, of course. The story of the 2023/24 season, any Servette supporter knows it. The championship, the European Cup and the victory in the Swiss Cup, as apotheosis.
But while the fans were vibrating from the stands, there was a film crew behind the scenes, who followed the Garnets throughout the season. The result of this immersion is sequenced in a documentary series of four episodes, entitled “Renaissance”, which will be broadcast progressively, every Monday in December, on the various Blue Sport channels (including YouTube).
Behind this project, which recalls the Netflix or Amazon Prime documentaries on Sunderland, Arsenal or Tottenham or the one broadcast by RTS in contact with the Swiss team during the year 2022, there are two young Geneva directors: Dylan Taher (29 years) and Léo Bachiri Wadimoff (35 years). They presented their project in preview on Wednesday at the Bio cinema in Carouge. In the presence, of course, of the main players, i.e. the members of the Servette team, staff and management.
“Our goal was also to tell the story of the city,” said Dylan Taher. Our mentality is to see far ahead for Geneva, to put it on the map of Europe, of the world.” From Rome to Bern, via Razgrad and Plzen, the story aligns with this ambition.
It therefore follows the progress of last season. With flashbacks, to tell the story of the reconstruction of a garnet identity and a club with a glorious past, and regular speakers, like ex-president Thierry Regenass, last season’s coach René Weiler, captain Jérémy Frick, winger Dereck Kutesa and even press chief Loïc Lüscher.
There, without dwelling too much on it, the darker periods are not obscured: the questions around Weiler, the affair of the forgotten email after the winter transfer window or the series of defeats in the championship which cost Servette the title. Successful exercise. And memories that reconnect for Servetti supporters.
