The president of En Avant Guingamp, Bertrand Desplat, was the guest of Lionel Rosso on the Europe 1 Sport program on Saturday. The Breton leader returned to the stopping of the championships of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2. If as a whole, French football complied with this decision, some recalcitrant expressed their dissatisfaction. What the Guingampais leader understands.

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He worked behind the scenes to get French professional football out of the crisis. The president of En Avant Guingamp, currently in Ligue 2, has decided to stop the championships of the first and second division, as well as the modalities concerning the classification. "It is the least unfair solution, which is of regulatory interest", explains Bertrand Desplat on Europe 1. "It is based on a decision taken beforehand by the French Football Federation which had frozen its amateur championships with the same model. Faced with possible appeals, I think it makes the overall position of football much more solid. For the time being, clubs like Lyon, Amiens and Toulouse are planning to file an appeal against the Professional Football League.

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For Desplat, "the football world is a bickering environment"

The leader of En Avant Guingamp understands, however, the challenges of his colleagues. "The world of football is a world of bickers. This is what makes it human, attractive. There is life in professional football," quipped Bertrand Desplat. "There are important issues for all of the clubs mentioned. Each of the leaders defends his club, his shop, we cannot blame that."

The owner of the Breton club understands the "feeling of bitterness and injustice", adding: "We must first digest the news, and I hope that they will return to more collective thoughts to avoid recourse. always has particularly animated discussions, each one seeks to defend the interests of his club. What disturbed me, it is the great humanist principles or of solidarity to arrive at calculations which profit with the one and the others. "

Hope for recovery in August

The Professional Football League advanced the weekend of August 23 for a potential resumption of professional football. But Bertrand Desplat is aware that everything can still happen. In this situation, ultimately, one must have an extremely strong capacity for anticipation but also for adaptation. An event drives out a decision ", deplores the president of Guingamp. What is complicated in our approach, it is to always have plan B compared to plan A. We fight as impossible to start in August. But if not, we will adapt. "