He lives a few hundred meters from the Bollaert stadium, where he lived his first match. Logic would have wanted Ludovic Kazmierczak to live to the rhythm of RC Lens. He decided otherwise. With “a bunch of friends“, he took part in the outbreak of the Ch’tis Canaris, ten years ago. A group of supporters apart, geographically, stronga hundred members and who will release for the first time its new banner, this Saturday afternoon on the occasion of the visit of the Yellows to the Pierre-Mauroy stadium. Their shortest trip of the season, almost at home, in Hauts-de-France.
Les Ch’tis Canaris, a banner story between friends
Ludovic, in his thirties, caught the yellow and green virus one evening in April 2004, during the defeat of the gang in Landreau, Toulalan, Yepes or even Armand against PSG, in the Coupe de France. “I followed the whole course and I was very sad at the end of the match, he rewinds. It was from there that I started to follow all the news of the club, to learn about its history while I was in class.. “Since then, the Nantes fever has not left him and over the years, Ludovic realized that he was not the only one who did not have a heart that favors Lille, Lens or even Valenciennes. The group of friends is growing.
From their native region, these supporters who “live FC Nantes at 1.000%“are starting to move together. The kilometers are piling up, by train or by car.”When we moved to Nantes, we received a lot of messages of encouragement from people who unlocked the fact that we could do 600, 1,000, 1,200 kilometers just to go see a Canaries match., confides, with a smile on his face, the spokesperson for the group of supporters. And that’s wherewe said to ourselves that there was something to do.“After careful consideration, it will be a tarpaulin. Yellow and green, obviously. Clearly visible during the descent of the Nantes players’ bus who welcomed Toulouse, the banner calls out. The Ch’tis are spotted and helped by an association of supporters, they will even manage to hang it behind one of the Beaujoire cages. “There, we said to ourselves that we had crossed a threshold“, rewinds Ludovic nostalgically.
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Fans who do not miss anything from FC Nantes news
Nearly 600 kilometers from La Jonelière, Northerners do not miss a crumb of Nantes news. Almost every morning, they read the sports pages of Presse Océan and Ouest France, listen to all the radio broadcasts and podcasts that talk about “their club“. The pre-matches, they live them on France Bleu Loire Océan,”it’s our little ritual“.”As soon as Nantes plays, it’s a blow to one, a blow to the other, we organize ourselves for travel, details the one who resides in Mazingarbe. We are a bit of a club in the club made up of all generations. We have the example of these two brothers whose father was a fan of Nantes. He did not have the opportunity to go see them before he died. His sons attended the match between Nantes and Sedan, imagine their emotion. There are also former Nantes residents, those who knew Marcel Saupin. And then there is a little one who is a fan and who is came to Reims, this season. He was vexed as not possible. There is even a guy from the Loire Brigade who gave him stickers to try to cheer him up.. “
As soon as we come to Nantes we are always well received, the supporters’ associations support us, they are even happy to see us, there is a lot of benevolence.
Surrounded by fans from Lille, Lensois and even Valenciennes on a daily basis, Ludovic looks like UFOs among his colleagues. Who do not hesitate to chamber it every time the Canaries make the headlines. “I have been living very badly in recent years, he admits. I have only known the hard years, I am fully in the Kita generation. Between the stories about Kita, the change of coaches, the Yellow Park and the Jonelière relocation project, I come at a time when the results of the club do not matter to me. And the logo change was the last straw“If the distance was not so great, he assures us that he would come to demonstrate alongside supporters’ associations. If only to share his passion.”As soon as we come to Nantes we are always well received, they support us, they are even happy to see us, there is a lot of benevolence“, rejoices Ludovic who is salivating in advance at the idea of finding them in the” visitor “park of the Pierre-Mauroy stadium.
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