After fourteen years spent in the middle of the oval, the Varois Mourad Boudjellal decided to round his ball. He invested at the beginning of the year in Hyères 83 FC, a club which plays in Nationale 2. Rencontre.
“I have another job now, another story to write.“This is how Mourad Boudjellal, the former boss of RCT, talks about his new challenge.
I come with a lot of humility. I will be very observant the first year: I will listen, watch, learn. Then you could say ‘I have the legitimacy to speak’. But for that, I will have to win.
In February, he became the majority shareholder of Hyères 83 FC. Nicolas Anelka was briefly the club’s sports director. “I learned with him“, assures Mourad Boudjellal,”about the professional world, football … It was interesting!“
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But today, the sporting part of the project is now managed by Boudjellal himself and trainer Lilian Compan, former L1 and L2 player in Auxerre, Châteauroux, Montpellier or Caen.
“Learning phase“
During a press conference on Tuesday, the businessman drew up a first roadmap. “We’re going to have a quiet first season, with the ambition to perform well and set up a group. Then next season, it will be the next step, that of ambition.“
We are in National 2, for at least 2 years.
The former comic book publisher says to himself “in the learning phase” : “football, N2, it’s different from rugby, that’s clear!“. A “new life“symbolized by this video, published this Monday on the Internet:
2.5 million euros budget
For this, he says he is surrounded by three shareholders with a budget of around 2.5 million euros. A dozen players were recruited in National or N2; two or three more recruits are coming “on which we are looking for real added value“.
Having experienced the very, very high level, the amateur world is a fun, sincere world. The construction side, the blank page, I have always had the fascination of the blank page. I want to live a little less stressed than in rugby.
Nevertheless, the 61-year-old does not intend to stop there. “I also signed in another field with a very large group in Paris“, he told France 3 Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Most “I don’t have the right to talk about it“.
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