Only four posters between Ligue 2 of this eighth round of the Coupe de France are televised.
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Of the ten matches between Ligue 2 clubs in the eighth round of the Coupe de France, Tuesday and Wednesday, only four are televised.
Main broadcaster of the event, Eurosport explains these choices, linked in large part to the new format of the competition adopted against the backdrop of Covid-19.
This is news that is rejuvenating the forties and over.
While today, by exaggerating a tad, an ultimate football fan can manage to unearth the broadcast of the Belize Cup final, official matches between Ligue 2 clubs are not broadcast live on TV, these Tuesday and Wednesday.
Of the ten meetings of the eighth round of the Coupe de France, only Auxerre-Troyes (Tuesday), Nancy-Sochaux and Guingamp-Caen (Wednesday) will have the honors of the cameras of Eurosport 2. Clermont - Grenoble, Wednesday at 13:45 (!) will be co-broadcast by Eurosport and the regional branches of France 3.
The other six games, behind closed doors of course, will take place away from the eyes of the fans.
What arouse incomprehension, even a certain anger, among some supporters and clubs ...
The meeting tomorrow night will not be broadcast.
In addition to being deprived of a stadium, supporters are now deprived of their team on TV.
Sacred period ... 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Communication Director of Discovery France, which oversees Eurosport, Mathieu Besson analyzes the situation differently.
“We cannot produce all the matches in the eighth round, we are already doing a little more than in previous years,” he explains.
We then broadcast one match in the seventh round, and two in the eighth.
By adding the one that France Télévisions produced, we arrived at three games.
This year, we are producing three games and there is the one we are co-broadcasting with France Télévision.
So we have four instead of three.
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A special Covid format that turns everything upside down
Once again, the Covid skews the situation.
In the world before, the eighth round matches of the Coupe de France were played in early December.
An L2 club could very well find itself opposed to an amateur formation.
The media coverage of the competition accelerated in early January, with the 32nd finals and the entry into the running of L1 clubs.
The health crisis has turned everything upside down, and forced the FFF to review the progress of its venerable competition.
With, therefore, oppositions between L2 in the eighth round, on January 19 and 20, while the amateur clubs forge their way on their side before (logically) reunion with the pros in the 16th.
"Editorial choices"
“We are dependent on the format, recognizes Mathieu Besson.
These are Ligue 2 clubs that meet but that does not mean that we have the capacity to cover all the games from the eighth round.
”Hence the need to make“ editorial choices ”.
“As for the meeting chosen by France Télévisions, we are co-broadcasting it”, continues the communication manager of Discovery.
The clubs don't have much leeway.
On Twitter, Valenciennes (who receives Chambly this Tuesday) deplores that "the FFF deprives the clubs of the possibility of offering, at the end of the meeting, a video summary greater than three minutes".
An employee of another club also "snubbed" by the TV observes: "we are not authorized to broadcast the meeting deferred on our platforms before midnight".
Supporters from Pau, Toulouse, Amiens or Ruthenian, it's time to take out your transistors, as in the heyday of multiplexes on the radio.
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