Tennis took the plaster, the football juggernaut followed, 14 committees now wish to emancipate themselves from their Leagues of the Grand Est, to reconnect with the Leagues of Alsace.
Recent remarks by the Minister of Sports Roxana maracineanu make them optimistic again. She explained that the government had “not vocation to oppose a reasoned request which would be submitted to them by a federation” for the creation of a League of Alsace.
Alsatian football leaders hope to convince Noël Le Graët
The officials of the Alsace football district will present this Saturday to the presidents of 535 Alsatian clubs meeting in AG in Rosheim, their project for a return to the Alsace League, dissolved on October 8, 2016. They believe in particular that an Alsace League would be closer to the clubs, more efficient, more modern.
“It is not an identity project, but a laboratory of ideas, explains Michel Aucourt, the president of the Alsace district. We deserve better than playing in Ligue 2 as for several years, we want to find Ligue 1 “.
If the support of the clubs for this project does not give rise to too many doubts, the key for those in charge of Alsatian football will be to convince the president of the French Federation Noël Le Graët and his executive committee. His listening is attentive, but he has not yet given his approval either, assure the leaders of Alsatian football.
- Find below the entire press release of the 14 sports committees in favor of a return to the Leagues of Alsace.
The Collectif Sportif pour l’Alsace is organizing to re-found our regional leagues.
On June 15, a number of representatives of Alsatian sports disciplines signed a press release asking our elected officials to support us in our specific efforts to organize ourselves in the Alsatian Leagues.
Four presidents of the Grand Est Leagues responded in particular that “only a modification of the number of regions by the legislator will allow the federations to create new leagues”. However, this argument is unfounded, given that the current legislation completely allows the re-founding of leagues on the scale of Alsace.
This is why we have continued to work so that in sport too, the “Alsace law” is applied and allows us to regain the proximity and efficiency that we need. With the support of our clubs, we are moving forward “hand in hand” with the elected representatives of the CEA and in the first row with its President, as well as with our Deputies and Senators whose unanimous and constant support is essential for us. It is following their interventions that the Director of the Cabinet of the Minister Delegate in charge of sports confirmed to us that: “The spirit of the law of August 2, 2019 was to allow sports players in the Alsatian territory to determine the organization. which appeared to them to be the most suitable, including by proposing the constitution of a regional league at the level of the ECA. “
In conclusion, the Minister recalled that the ministry in charge of sports was “not intended to oppose a reasoned request which would be submitted to them by a federation” for the creation of an Alsace League.
Meetings have taken place at the initiative of the European Collectivity of Alsace, in Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin; exchanges which continued with all Alsatian sports disciplines. If some have not expressed any particular desire to change their organization, the signatories of this have declared themselves interested or even determined to return to an Alsace League in their discipline.
It appeared very clearly that, whatever the choice of the discipline concerned, the will of the “sports players of the Alsatian territory” had to be respected. Once the democratic process mentioned by the Minister Delegate in charge of sports is implemented, and the clubs have spoken in a clear and unequivocal manner, nothing and no one should be able to prevent it.
This is why we, representatives of the Alsatian associative sports world, ask the Minister Delegate in charge of sports and beyond the Prime Minister to ensure the effectiveness of the Alsace law and respect for the choices of Alsatian clubs when they democratically expressed their views on the advisability of organizing an Alsatian League.
The future of Alsatian sport is at stake.
André HAAS: president of CD 67 Tennis
Stéphane THOMANN: president of CD 68 Tennis
Michel AUCOURT: President of the Alsace Football District
Bernard FLESCH: president CD 67 Rugby
Sandrine BERRA: President CD 68 Rugby
Roland BOHN: president of CD 67 Handball
Thierry KEGLER: president of CD 68 Handball
Didier MAYER: President of the CID d’Alsace Aikido, Aikibudo et Associés
Laurent SOLHARD: president of the CD 67 Savate et Boxe française
Rachel ACKERMANN: president CD 68 Savate and French boxing
Michel SALOMON: president of CD 67 Golf
Albert KOFFLER: president of CD 67 Athletics
Anaïs ROMANET: President CD 67 Archery
Denis OEHLER: president of CD 67 Basket