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Friday April 24, 2020 at 12:43 pm – Article written by La Rédaction – Comment on this article
It is a decision that does not necessarily have more on the side of Lyon, nor on the side of Saint-Etienne. This Thursday, UEFA effectively recommended that the national leagues allocate tickets for European competitions via “sporting merit” for the current season. Translation: trust the championship ranking, not the national cups. An announcement badly perceived by the president of the supervisory board of ASSE Bernard Caïazzo, whose club is qualified for the final of the Coupe de France against Paris Saint-Germain.
“Comex to decide”
While the vagueness surrounds the holding of the match, initially scheduled for this Saturday, April 25 but potentially postponed to July 11, the one who is also the leader of the Premier League union believes in an interview with France Bleu Saint-Etienne Loire that “the cup of France is the most prestigious soccer event in France. If we don’t play it, having no representative of the French Cup in a European cup next season would be a real affront to the Federation. This would mean that this competition which brings together all the clubs including the amateur world would lose its prestige. Especially since the ASSE has not been eliminated if we do not play. “
“I think the dossier will go back to the Federation’s Executive Committee and it will have to decide, say whether amateur clubs and this prestigious competition in the French Cup have the right to have a European representative,” he continues. Otherwise, it would be a sign of a decline in prestige of the French Cup. We are going to question the president of the Federation (Noël Le Graët) but, in my opinion, it is for the Executive Committee to decide, “concludes Bernard Caïazzo.
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