“I work twenty hours for a match but I don't complain because I'm in the front row to follow it. And twenty hours is an average, it also depends on the distance to travel to ensure the delegation. »
After traveling to Rouen and Le Mans since the start of the National season, Pascal Razer, the former D4 player at DC Carhaix, did not have too many kilometers to do to come from Châteauneuf-du-Faou , where he is head of the Football-studies section, in Concarneau. With his deputy from Morbihan, Frédéric Rocher, the two representatives of the French Football Federation (FFF) were the regionals for the stage of the National match between US Concarneau and Dijon (1-2).
The pre-match
Their appointment was set for 4 p.m. to take up their duties three hours before kick-off, set for 7:30 p.m. “With the various organizational meetings, the three hours pass quickly. »
Meetings that the delegate must prepare in advance. “I’ve been on the match since the start of the week. There is a lot of information to collect from the different stakeholders, the identities, contact details and responsibilities of each person, the pre-match protocol, the players' equipment, the colors of the jerseys, the substitutes' bibs, the equipment, etc. . Concerning the visiting club, you must know its mode of travel, its place of accommodation, its time of arrival at the stadium, the announced number of its supporters (there were 45) who will join their parking lot. We also need to see the distribution of tasks with my assistant, who does what in terms of managing the computerized match sheet (FMI), monitoring player changes with replacement panels, administrative sanctions, the score sheet. recipe… “
Precise timing
At H-3, the delegates have a first contact with the commissioner of the host club (Jean-Yves Bourrée) and they make a joint inspection of the visitors and referees locker rooms, the anti-doping room and the one assigned to them. They review the organizational file and begin to manage the tablet for the FMI.
At 2:45 a.m., organization and security meeting: reminder of everyone's areas of expertise, pre-match timing, management of ball boys, benches, exclusions, return to the referees' locker rooms, particular attention to the behavior of supporters of the visiting club. Validation of outfits with the refereeing body.
At H-2 media meeting ensuring television broadcast. At H-1, FMI transmission to the press broadcasters present and to the FFF.
The post-match
After the match, finalization of the FMI with the referees: score, discipline (administrative sanctions) and changes of players. The two delegates then check together all the information to be transmitted, the scorers, the passers, any injured people, the receipt sheet (€20,116 for 2,252 spectators).
Apart from the behavior of visiting supporters (tags, smoke bombs and breakages in the toilets) unhappy with the price of their seats (9 € instead of the 5 negotiated between different club presidents), and the defeat of Concarneau, the match was went well. No doping control on the program. “We will be able to go home earlier,” concluded Pascal Razer that evening. He will still have to make his report. “One hour of work on D + 1”. Everything is timed.
