The leaders of Bordeaux, engaged in a race against the clock to save the Girondins, pleaded last Thursday to the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) to try to obtain a favorable opinion on their maintenance in Ligue 2. This Monday , the CNOSF finally gave this favorable opinion the maintenance of the Girondins in Ligue 2 learned this Monday the Sports Department of Radio France from a source close to the football club. This is an advisory opinion.
Such an outcome means that the Girondins won their case in series against two successive decisions of the DNCG, the financial policeman of French football, which sanctioned the club with a demotion to National in the first instance, then confirmed in appeal this decision, synonymous, in the long term, with filing for bankruptcy.
The file must now be referred to the Executive Committee of the French Federation (FFF) which would have to decide urgently before the resumption of Ligue 2, Saturday July 30.
Hope gives life to Bordeaux, which has been fighting for weeks to avoid demotion, headed by the controversial President Gérard Lopez, ultra-present in the media to save this monument of French football, as he had already done last summer when he bought the club from former American shareholders.