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Zapping Goal! soccer club ASSE: the Greens’ tribute to Loïc Perrin

The year 2021 will quickly be forgotten on the side of ASSE. While the outbreak is currently in full swing in France, several Ligue 1 clubs are being hit hard by the Omicron virus. This is the case in Angers, where 19 positive cases were identified this week! Five staff members, including Gérald Baticle, are also concerned.

Around half are asymptomatic and no players are suffering from serious symptoms. The SCO, which has already been eliminated from the competition, thus made a request yesterday to postpone its next Ligue 1 match against ASSE on Sunday January 9 (3 p.m.). According to the Angevin club, the postponement of its match of the 20th day should be validated by the Covid commission of the FFF.

“We are not fiddling. It would have just been crazy to play against Saint-Étienne, ”we anticipate at the club. “It is not the club which requests the postponement, but the LFP commission, which, taking into account the elements provided to it, decides on the postponement, details Angevin general manager Xavier Thuilot in Ouest France. Our doctor provided all the tests to the commission which will assess our situation. Symbolically, we sent a letter requesting a postponement to the League because it seemed correct to us. We must accept this type of situation, even if it is not always fair. We cannot always cry wolf and we must not forget that it is an associative environment so the rules that are essential, it is very often we who wrote and voted them. »

to summarize

If ASSE supporters were planning to start the year 2022 in Angers on Sunday January 9 on behalf of the 20th day of L1 (3 p.m.), they should be disappointed very quickly with a postponement.

Bastien Aubert