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Sevilla FC faces RC Lens on Wednesday, September 20, as part of the first day of the Champions League. The opportunity for journalist Samuel Ollivier, present on the 8 Heures set, to look back on the history of this emblematic French football club.
Sevilla FC faces R.C. Lens as part of the first day of the Champions League at 9 p.m.Wednesday September 20. It is “the return of the Artesian club to the Champions League, 21 years after its last match”indicates journalist Samuel Ollivier, present on the set of 8 Hours. A historic club founded in 1906 and coached today by Franck Haise. RC Lens were French champions in 1998 and won the Coupe de la Ligue in 1999.
The club’s mining identity
The club’s stadium is the stadium Bollaert-Delelis. “Andre Delelis is the former mayor of Lens (Pas-de-Calais) and a former government minister Pierre Mauroy”explains the journalist. Felix Bollaert was the director of the mines campaign. The Lens club is very impregnated of identity mining, like the city. “The most striking example is the club anthem: ‘THE corons’ by Pierre Bachelet”recalls Samuel Ollivier.