With their children, Grégory and Anaïs follow Racing everywhere.

Well, not at the moment ... -

A. Ighirri / 20 Minutes

  • The end of an incredible series.

    Confined, Grégory Walter could not attend the RC Strasbourg match on Sunday in Reims (2-1 defeat for the Alsatians).

  • It was the first time since February 5, 2003 that they did not see his charges playing away.

  • “I had organized and structured my life around Racing.

    This failed match in Reims marks the end of a series but not of my way of life.

    Even after several months of withdrawal, I will not be cured!

    He says.

His count stopped at 6.479.

Like the number of days he hadn't missed any RC Strasbourg away game.

Since February 5, 2003 and a meeting in Montpellier, Grégory Walter was on all the trips of the Alsatian club.

In France but also abroad for the rare European epics.

“I even managed to see a game behind closed doors in Bastia (in 2010).

With the support of Racing, we had been able to pass themselves off as journalism students ", laughs this" addicted since the age of 10 and the roadblock of accession to D1 against Rennes at Meinau ".

But Sunday for the 9th day of Ligue 1 in Reims, he could not do anything.

Confinement requires, the fan remained stranded at home, in Innenheim.

The adventure ends today 😰


If you have a memory or an anecdote to share with me about all these years on the roads, it's nice 👍 pic.twitter.com/LpexQdh0TH

- Grégory Walter (@GregStras) November 1, 2020

“I would have been alone to go to the stadium, I might have tried something.

But not four ", admits the one who had taken the habit of sharing these moments with his wife, Anaïs, and his two children, Charlotte and Robin.

Regardless of the constraints (strollers, bottles etc.), the four had always found solutions to follow their team of hearts everywhere.

Even the day after the birth of his son, in 2014, Grégory Walter was able to go to Bourg-en-Bresse!

"I had encouraged him to go there because it was close to his heart," recalls the young mother, also a supporter of the Alsatian club since her adolescence.

“Me, it's been over 19 years since I missed a Racing match at La Meinau.

Considering how sad I was for my husband, it should do something to me next Friday against Marseille… ”

"I never watch a game on TV"

The small family will obviously not miss the performance of its proteges.

But it will, once again, not have the same flavor.

“I never watch a game on TV.

Sunday, I had to resign myself, death in my soul, to take out the subscription.

It was frankly not very exhilarating to watch on a screen, admits the current vice-president of the Federation of supporters of RC Strasbourg.

“What we like is the associative side, the atmosphere etc.

There, we did not have fun and the children not much either.

Already in the half-empty stadiums, they liked less, ”adds his wife, also aware that the situation could last.

“What I dream of now is a full Meinau.

This will then be the end of purgatory!

», Grégory Walter is already planning, far from having given up on future trips.

“I had organized and structured my life around Racing.

This failed match in Reims marks the end of a series but not of my way of life.

Even after several months of withdrawal, I will not be cured!

"

"We will take our troubles patiently," concludes Anaïs Walter.

It's hard for us but we are aware that there is much more serious at the moment.

"

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