French Football Cup: Union Saint-Jean dreams of an exploit against Versailles

In sport this weekend, there is the Top 14 with Racing 92 – Stade Toulousain on Saturday (2:30 p.m.), Ligue 1 with TFC – Auxerre on Sunday (5 p.m.), the two matches to be experienced in full on France Bleu Occitanie. More there is also the French Football cup and his exploits that we love so much. We call it the “magic of the cup”. Ligue 1 clubs will enter the next round next month. Waiting for, there remains one surviving club in Midi-Pyrénées for the 8th round this weekend, it is Union Saint-Jean to the north-east of Toulouse.

Three divisions apart

The Haut-Garonnais amateurs play in the 6th division (Regional one) and welcome this Saturday (6 p.m.) the professionals from VersaillesNational club, three divisions above. It will be complicated but they believe in it like their defender Paul-Alexandre Cachart. He is a video analyst at TFC and works in a school. And he is enjoying the excitement around this match. “It’s the whole context and everything that’s around, the people when I go to Téfécé, etc. People talk to me about it in the morning. In fact, I also work in a school. When I go to school, people talk to me about it, students talk to me about it all the time, it’s great, there are no other words. We can’t wait to be there. be there. It’s just the opponent that changes. are players who make it their job. We don’t. It’s up to us to create the feat. We see it, sometimes, it’s the others and it often happens to the others. who come out of N2, N2 who come out of Ligue 1 or Ligue 2, etc. And there, it’s up to us.”

There are still places left

At the club, it’s excitement. The 1,500 places are going like hot cakes. Never in its history has Union Saint-Jean reached this stage of the competition against such a strong opponent. Already five years ago, the first team reached the previous round, beaten by Bayonne. It is also to experience these kinds of moments that in 2018 the Union and Saint-Jean clubs merged, recalls co-president Jérôme Sudriez. This season, Union Saint-Jean has so far beaten lower ranked teams. But the players hope to achieve a feat on Saturday and continue to write the history of their club. Union Saint-Jean – Versailles is Saturday 6 p.m. at the Georges Beyney stadium at the Union. There are still places left.