In its own way, Saint-Etienne won the final against the pandemic. The virtual sale of seats at the Stade de France, initiated by the club from Stéphane, which was to face PSG this Saturday in the final of the Coupe de France, has indeed met with great success.
AS Saint-Etienne announced, ten days ago, that it had collected 88,058 euros, through an operation carried out by the ASSE-Green Heart association, entirely donated to the CHU de Saint-Etienne as part of its European research program Discovery dedicated to the fight against Covid-19. ASSE-Coeur vert had launched on April 3 an operation intended to fill the 80,000 seats of the Stade de France, where must be disputed at a date to be determined, perhaps July 11, the final of the Coupe de France, by selling virtual tickets at the price of one euro each.
The Greens have therefore collected more donations than expected, thanks also to the significant gestures of the officials of the Stade de France, but also of Aésio, main partner of ASSE and the charity association of Stéphanois, initiator of the operation. The first two structures each took 10,000 places, while ASSE-Cœur Vert bought 20,000 places.
Recognition of researchers
These purchased tickets obviously do not give the right to a real place for the final. The ASSE-Cœur vert Association supports or organizes various actions of general interest essentially of a charitable, social or civic nature.
“On behalf of the research community of the Center Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint-Étienne, Professors Bruno Pozzetto, Élisabeth Botelho-Nevers and Thomas Bourlet, warmly thank the thousands of donors during the ASSE-Cœur Vert challenge”, relayed the ASSE on its website. “A big thank you for your generosity,” wrote, for their part, the three researchers on the official website of the club forézien.
The Saint-Etienne club recalls that in 2015, it also organized a friendly match at Geoffroy-Guichard between former Greens and a team of world stars led by Zinedine Zidane, who had raised € 370,000 for the fight against Ebola virus in West Africa.
If ASSE has chosen to pay the proceeds from its sale of virtual places to the Saint-Etienne University Hospital, it is also because the latter is at the forefront in developing a screening test against Covid-19 .