frozen shower on the party in Haguenau, the round of 16 postponed

It's half a surprise but the disappointment is there. For the first 16^e final of the Coupe de France in its history, the FRH pulled out all the stops and deployed a cohort of volunteers to welcome more than 2,000 spectators.

Around 8 p.m., forty-five minutes before kick-off, the two Haguenov goalkeepers were the first to take the field for the warm-up.

“We started running a little and catching the ball a little,” says Stéphane Schneider. Then we were…