It is a nasty blow for semi-professional football and more particularly for the women’s D2 and the Men’s National 2, which we had authorized to resume and who have just learned that they were at a standstill again. ASPTT Albi was thus to return to competition on April 18 with the reception in Rigaud de Marseille and the players were happy to get down to business.
The friendly match against Nîmes canceled
To prepare, the staff had even planned a friendly match on Sunday against Nîmes at the Rigaud stadium, but the two clubs preferred to cancel it. What is the point of organizing a match when we are heading more and more towards a white season, like amateur rugby clubs who already know that their season ended last October. “It didn’t look like much to predict this match when the Prefecture could ban it on Saturday,” comments Alain Espié, the president of the ASPTT.
We are awaiting official information from the FFF, we have a video this Friday evening, but the Minister was very clear, the semi-professional championships will not resume. This announcement of the resumption of competition on April 18 had boosted the morale of the players, but there, it will fall even lower … “
The club will have to adapt as quickly as possible to this new situation. “Until now, the players were on short-time work for games but not for training. Today we left to continue training, but after a while the players will get bored. Championship will not resume, but we may be allowed to play tournaments or friendlies at the end of the season. “
In Marssac, the recovery was not scheduled and the first team runs at the rate of one training per week on Saturday in Castelmaurou. “There are fewer and fewer players present and we had better tell us that we are stopping everything this season. But there will soon be elections to the federation …”, quips François Enguilabert, the president of the R1 club. “Some players haven’t done much since September-October and it would take at least five to six weeks of preparation to get them back into shape. If there is no recovery in mid-March, it will be finished for this year. “
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