Coupe de France: “The Stadium seems complicated, Ernest-Wallon would be ideal”… Union-Saint-Jean is looking for a stadium for its match against Monaco

Barely time to take advantage of this draw, we must already get to work for the Union-Saint-Jean teams and its two presidents Jérôme Sudriez and Daniel Nadalin. Especially since the mission is significant: find a stadium to welcome the professionals of AS Monaco, and make this 32nd final a celebration that the club will not forget. And for the moment the eastern Toulouse club already has some leads.

“We are hard at work. We have to wait for the Federation to define when the match will be played (the matches are scheduled between Friday December 20 and Sunday December 22, Editor's note), but we are already asking questions to different clubs. The Stadium is a preference, but it seems complicated, Ernest-Wallon would be ideal,” explains one of the members of the office. The club had also thought of Bendichou, the den of Colomiers, but the Colombe club welcomes Biarritz on Friday.

Same observation for Montauban who plays on his home field. And if Revel had hosted PSG in Castres last year, Union-Saint-Jean would like to stay in Toulouse, not without a touch of irony: “The ideal would be for us to stay in Toulouse… This morning I I saw a Eurosport article where they called us the Bordelais of Union-Saint-Jean… So it would be good to put the church back in the middle of the village. If we ever want to be identified, we would have to. stay on Toulouse.

A stadium that makes you dream

So obviously, for footballers, the Stadium would be the ideal place, but isn't it too big? “Is it in our interest to get carried away with the Stadium? Will we be able to fill the 30,000 seats? Even if it will be the Christmas holiday period, will the Metropolis accept? “

So many questions that players don't ask themselves, and this is the case for captain and goalkeeper Fawzi Rabyi when asked for his preference: “The Stadium of course! I imagined myself playing there several times when I was young man It would be an incredible chance to be able to play it there, hopefully there will be a crowd.”

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A logical choice for a player who went through TFC training. Same story for coach Greg Sorroche: “For the symbolism I would like the Stadium because it is the stadium of the flagship team in our region. We have been a partner club for several years, some of our players work at TFC , others were trained there, and I love the atmosphere that the new management has created.”

However, he is no less complimentary of Ernest-Wallon. “It is an emblematic stadium for lovers of regional sport and with a strong identity. Above all, I hope that we will be able to play in a stadium worthy of the event,” he concludes.