After crossing paths with Brest and then Rennes, FC Nantes will once again come up against a Breton club this Sunday afternoon. On the forecourt of the stadium as in the enclosure of the Moustoir, in Lorient, Bro gozh ma zadoù, bagads and other activities will be organized, in accordance with the Breton derby charter signed by the Merlus, in July 2019, alongside the Rouge et Noir as well as Brest and Guingamp. Announced present, the Yellows had turned pale at the last moment. A “very political file“, we confide in Canaries who should in turn set up these events, when the Hake comes, in January, without ratifying this charter. Provided that the health situation does not decide otherwise. Explanations.
“Various pressures for FC Nantes not to sign this charter”
“It was one of the most starting clubs in this history and, a few days before, there had been various pressures for FC Nantes not to sign this charter.“, remembers Jacques-Yves Le Touze, chairman of the Bro Gozh committee behind the project. According to several sources, certain political institutions, including the Pays de la Loire region, had expressed their point of view on the subject at the eight-time champion club of France. Several dozen Internet users had done the same on social networks. In a more or less virulent way. “Too controversial“, for the Canaries who had finally turned back.
It is not because some politicians find fault with it that we are going to abandon this idea.
However, the club on the banks of the Erdre never closed the door to the organization of events when the signatories of this document came. They also want to organize them on the same basis as those set up in Brittany. If the events are not fierce against the Canaries. “We tried to do a minimum of things but each time we had problems, recalls Jacques-Yves Le Touze. The first time was because of the weather which was absolutely terrible and then there were restrictions put in place because it was the start of the pandemic. ”A bad luck which continued with the return of the public. The programming of the meeting vis-a-vis the Stade Brestois by the LFP, in the middle of the week and at the time of leaving work, had this time been right of the animations envisaged this evening there, among which the arrival of bagads.
A new meeting scheduled for early next year
Despite the pitfalls, the Bro Gozh committee does not despair of seeing FC Nantes one day sign at the bottom of this very symbolic document “to make these meetings a great celebration of Brittany“, says Jacques-Yves Le Touze. The exchanges between the club and the committee were also regular. Until the start of the pandemic. Since then, contacts have become rarer and they should remain so, at least until the appointment of a successor to Baptise Huriez, the future-ex-marketing director being until then the privileged interlocutor of the committee. “But we do not despair“, assures its president.
“It is not because some politicians find fault with it that we are going to abandon this idea., he blurted out. There is no reason.” A new meeting between signatory clubs is also planned for the beginning of next year with the aim ofevoke the renewal of this charter – put on hold for a season and a half due to the Covid-19 epidemic and its consequences in the stadiums – which ran over three years. “This charter is for the medium and long term”, explains Jacques-Yves Le Touze. And there is no doubt that the Yellow and Green will once again be invited to this meeting, alongside their Breton neighbors.