RC Saint-Joseph will play its 32nd French Cup final against SC Bastia. Drawn first in the draw, he should have received the Bastiais in Martinique but is opposed to the official regulations of the competition which require the travel of overseas clubs at this stage of the competition. A situation denounced by Georges Duquesnay in a letter addressed to Philippe Diallo, president of the French Football Federation.
In a letter addressed to Philippe Diallo, the president of the French Football Federation, Georges Duquesnay requests that the 32nd final of the French Cup between RC Saint-Joseph and SC Bastia be played in Martinique on the weekend of December 20 .
The president of the Martinique football league asks that the draw be respected since the Josephin club “was shot first.”
Failing that, we would like this meeting to be played in the Paris region with the FFF taking charge of the organization given the deadlines. We insist that when drawing up the revenue sheet, our club is clearly identified as the receiving club.
Georges Duqesnay, president of the Martinique football league
President Duquesnay is putting his foot down in what looks like an injustice since at this stage of the competition, the overseas clubs are forced to travel to their opponents, in France to play their match. “The movement of an overseas amateur team from overseas to mainland France is no less restrictive than the same movement from mainland France to overseas for an amateur or professional mainland club.“, underlines the president of the LFM.
Especially since the RC Saint-Joseph will be making a second trip.transcontinental in less than a month with the consequences that we know” adds Georges Duqesnay such as the difficulty of availability of these amateur players or students, the economic constraints linked to additional and invisible costs or even the loss of sporting opportunity to go and play with the opponent.
The 32nd final of the French Cup between RC Saint-Joseph and SC Bastia, a Ligue 2 club, is to be held on Friday, December 20 on the lawn of the Furiani stadium in Bastia.
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