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The Bourgoin-Jallieu amateur club achieved a resounding feat by eliminating Lyon from the Coupe de France on Wednesday evening, a few days after its leaders came very close to a fatal accident.
Among themselves, they now call themselves “the survivors.” Djemal Kolver, president of Bourgoin-Jallieu, Suat Atak, vice-president, and Dylan Rahis, general manager of the Isère club, saw their destiny dancing on a thread. Of the resounding feat achieved by their team, residents of National 3 which eliminated Olympique Lyonnais from the Coupe de France, Wednesday evening on penalties, the three men could have seen nothing. Because all of their lives could have ended a few days earlier.
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As RMC Sport tells us, it was played very closely, four days before their round of 16, when they went to Espaly (Haute-Loire) for a championship match. On the road in front of them, a vehicle swerves. Dylan Rahis swerves the wheel to avoid it and says the rest: “Yes, we are miraculous after our six rolls”.
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The leaders’ car ended up on the side of the road, the three men escaped unharmed or almost. “I think that at least one rib is affected, it’s painful, but it passes” they detailed a few hours after the club’s greatest achievement in the Coupe de France, Wednesday evening. They did not know the precise diagnosis, because they had postponed their medical examinations until Thursday morning, to be able to attend the round of 16. Which they probably savored more intensely than the others…
