Mid-day guest Podcast Podcast

Football: "Ligue 1 becomes attractive for foreign capital"

OGC Nice has just been bought by the Englishman Jim Ratcliffe. The project was validated last week by the National Directorate of Assistance and Management Control of the Professional Football League. The Nice club is added to the long list of French clubs owned by foreign investors. AS Monaco is owned by the Russian Dmitri Rybolovlev, Olympique de Marseille by the American Frank McCourt, a Luxembourg-based holding company financed by American funds owns the club Bordeaux. But does French football still belong to the French? Wladimir Andreff, professor emeritus at the University Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne and president of the Observatory of the economy of sport is the mid-day guest to talk about it.

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