The attractive story of AS Calenzana, who received the R4 soccer championship after a 30-year hiatus

Soccer has resumed its rights in Calenzana. The group received the regional champion cup 4 this weekend, after a recreation performed at dwelling and in entrance of a big viewers towards Lupinu reserve. An enormous victory for the membership, the center of town beats and it was relaunched only a yr in the past.

The music, the guard of honor, the smoke bombs, every little thing is there: for this R4 recreation, the bottom stage of soccer, it’s a return to highschool that deserves probably the most reserving for AS Calenzana gamers, this Sunday. , Might 19.

The group performed their final recreation of the season towards Lupinu reserve, at dwelling, and in entrance of a full stand. “It has been 10 or 11 years since I ended enjoying soccer, so to place my crampons again on, and within the metropolis, it is implausible, laughs Dumè Guglielmacci, the membership’s striker. After which to see the kids taking a look at us like that, although we’re solely in R4, it is actually huge for us“.

The identical feeling for the coach, Jean-Baptiste Colombani. “It is an ideal feeling at this time to play with my childhood associates, to educate them, to have rebuilt this membership 25 years later. We performed right here once we had been 10 years outdated, he remembers. And it is good to start out once more at this time.“

Nice enthusiasm, and vital assets invested on this small membership, was created only a yr in the past. Funds had been particularly launched by town to redevelop town’s stadium.

And whether it is certainly a brand new group, it would observe straight within the footsteps of the outdated ones: 30 years in the past, town was already shining for the purple and white, earlier than the membership went unfold till the Eighties the city misplaced.

“Calenzana has all the time been a soccer city. The elders instructed us in regards to the video games that had been going down, and we all the time had this particular feeling right here, says Jo Malaspina, captain of the previous group AS Calenzana. All of us have just a little little bit of that in our generations, and it continued.“

With this new group, Calenzana rediscovers the sensation of yesteryear … and the general public too, who got here in droves to assist the gamers.

“We did each recreation and each journey throughout Corsica“, reassures this girl, pointing to an entire group of supporters round her, when one other compares final Sunday,”the place we had been drained, we met on the bar. After which, everybody meets right here, it is a pleasant time and we’re all pleased to be there, all generations collectively.“

A superb story for AS Calenzana, which, with out spoiling something, has carried out effectively all through the season: the membership completed first within the competitors, and it guarantees to not cease there. So the continuity is effectively and really assured.