“We will do the impossible to be up to the task”, assures on franceinfo Anny Courtade, president of AS Cannes football, club of Nationale 3, who after having eliminated two clubs of Ligue 2 (Dijon and Rodez) on penalties, attacks Toulouse (L2) Sunday January 2 , on the sidelines of a round of 16 of the Coupe de France.
“It’s a piece of cake” this match, she said with humor, “but finally a cake that we approach with rigor, with a lot of work, but with serenity and humility”, continues the one who has led this football team for two years. She told her players “to be rigorous, to be serious, to be focused, motivated to the end” for this meeting. “In football as in all high level sports until the last point, we have never lost and we have never won.” It is necessary “be concentrated”, because “Finally, we have nothing to lose. We just have to be proud of our course and try to pass one more lap.”
What makes the success of his club are “values that are common, namely the sense of effort, the objective, respect for others, surpassing oneself”, insists the one who agreed to take the reins of the club to “give back a little the luster it deserves”.
Can the Cannes club aim for a Champions League? “Why not”, answers Anny Courtade, but “there, our goal for us, in five and seven years, is already to go to Ligue 2. And then, afterwards, anything is possible”. The proof, adds the one who is also the head of a company, “you only have to look at the results of this Coupe de France which is original anyway, since you have bonsai against baobabs, David against Goliath”.
“And then, you know, a high-level club is not just that. It’s also 730 licensees, including 50 teams of kids aged 6 to 19 in whom we must instill the essential values who will be the backbone, which will make them successful adults and whom we will find in our companies “, estimates the one who previously led the women’s volleyball team at Cannes by winning 21 French league titles, two Champions Leagues and 19 French Cups.