Thursday evening, around one hundred and fifty supporters of AC Ajaccio gathered at the Saint Paul high school to launch the creation of a group of socios in order to help the club in the grip of major financial difficulties.
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There were about one hundred and fifty of them, all supporters of the ACA, who gathered on the evening of Thursday 16 January at the Saint-Paul high school in Ajaccio at the call of the “Collettivu di u populu bianch’è rossu”.
Objective: save the club. Currently relegated to Ligue 2, it is especially in the grip of major financial difficulties with a debt estimated at 7.5 million euros. Last December, the DNCG notably pronounced, as a precautionary measure, its demotion to National at the end of the season, if the Ajaccian leaders fail to recover financially by then.
“We are not going to let the ACA die, confides Louis Harmand, a young supporter. We will do everything to make our contribution and ensure that the club, whatever its situation, rises from its ashes or continues to grow.”
It is therefore to avoid filing for bankruptcy by the end of the season that young and old alike have decided to mobilize in order to define three priority areas of work:
The financial engineering, legal structuring and culture of the club and its history.
-The report by Sylvie Wolinsky, Jennifer Cappaï and Mattea Luccioni:
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Speakers: Louis Harmand (ACA supporter) – Pierre-Nicolas Beretti (member of the “Collective of the white and red people) – Daniel Quilichini (ACA supporter)
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©S; Wolinsky – J. Cappaï-Squarcini – M. Luccioni
The desire of social aceists is to quickly launch a popular crowdfunding campaign to support the ACA institution. However, for many of them, a change of model is necessary.
“We don’t want to participate in decisions but at least have a right to review, to be on the board of directors, explains Pierre-Nicolas Beretti, member of the “Collettivu di u populu bianchè rossu”, just created by around thirty supporters. Unfortunatelyhe continues, I think that today the club has completely withdrawn into itself and it needs a new dynamic. And it’s up to us, the supporters, to recreate it!”
Same bell sound at Daniel Quilichini. “It will also allow us to see how the club works exactlyslips the 62-year-old man, an aceist since he was 11. We were never aware of what was happening there even though we are the ones pushing the ACA forward.”
According to supporters, the AC Ajaccio institution also represents an economic tool “supporting 120 Corsican families” et “generating several hundred indirect jobs”.
Also at this level, its disappearance could therefore have a significant impact on the entire Ajaccian basin.
