Through Luc Chatel
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Born in Saint-Etienne, the CEO of Carrefour Alexandre Bompard would consider taking over the city’s legendary football club, ASSE. The confidence does not come from just anyone since it was his father, Alain Bompard, former president of the club between 1997 and 2004, who gave it to the specialized site poteaux-carres.com on Wednesday April 7, 2021.
In this very long interview, he explains besides having taken the presidency of the club partly to impress his son: “At the time, the team was last of D2, there were 43 million francs of liabilities, tells- he does. I had taken the huge risk of hiring myself to try and demonstrate to my son who had passed the ENA that his old daddy daddy wasn’t totally finished and that he was capable of pulling off a big blow! “
“Alexandre is a pure Stéphanois! “
He returns on several occasions to the proximity that they both maintain, neighbors in the Lubéron and passionate about ASSE whose matches they sometimes watch together. “His lifelong club since the age of 6-7 is Saint-Etienne […] he is really pure Stéphanois! », Says Alain Bompard about his son Alexandre.
And when the journalist asks him if his son could in turn preside over the destinies of the club, here is his response: “It’s in the back of his mind! It exists ! He spent the best years of his life with me at Saint Etienne ! What we experienced father and son, together, with three such exceptional partners, it was great! “
Alain Bompard is convinced he would make a good club boss: “I’m sure he would succeed! Compared to me, he has financial networks! He knows all the bosses of the CAC40! It’s an advantage. “
“He received dozens of messages from supporters”
And reading it on post-squares.com, he’s not the only one who wants to see Alexandre bompard at the head of ASSE: “He explained to me that he had received dozens and dozens of messages from Stéphanois asking him to take over the club! “
Among other memories, Alain Bompard evokes the maintenance in D2 thanks to a goal of Le Mans against Louhans which condemns the latter to relegation in place of ASSE: “Alexandre was a few rows from me in the Lille stadium, he is arrived running, he broke his mouth and fell on me saying “Daddy, Daddy, we’re saved!” “”.