“We are very happy and very proud”, declares the mayor of the city

We are “a rugby city, but also a football city and the club is experiencing tremendous enthusiasm, the number of subscribers has been multiplied by 4 for this season. We are very happy, we are very proud and it has not happened for 66 years, it’s a real event”, greets Thursday, April 6, on franceinfo, Jean-Luc Moudenc, the mayor of Toulouse, after the qualification of the TFC for the final of the Coupe de France. The Toulousains beat Annecy, a Ligue 2 club, two goals to one and join Nantes. The final will be played on April 29 at the Stade de France. This is the first final in the competition for Toulouse since 1957. That year, the Toulouse won the Coupe de France against Angers 6 goals 3.

Football in Toulouse “has a place of choice”because “The people of Toulouse are attached to the TFC, there are more and more supporters and they are not only people from Toulouse, because the club shines beyond the city”, continued the mayor of the pink city. At the stadium, come “residents of Haute-Garonne and the surrounding departments, it is a flag club for an entire region”he welcomes.

“We didn’t want to sell the bear’s skin before we killed it, we preferred to focus on Annecy because the match was very competitive, very balanced”now that we won “we are going to consult with the club and ensure that Toulouse and the people of Toulouse can participate as well as possible in this final, in this historic event”. “We are going to make it something popular” he added.

The mayor of Toulouse does not want to make a prognosis but wants to be “optimistic”even if “It’s not won, there is such a dynamic, a great team and all the ingredients are there for it to work, it’s not enough to say it, you have to do it”hopes Jean-Luc Moudenc.