• Throughout the season, the L'Equipe channel will broadcast in multiplex the eight Ligue 2 matches scheduled for Saturday at 7 p.m.

  • The presentation of the evening will be rotating.

    This Saturday, Bertrand Latour will host the premiere, alongside consultant Régis Brouard.

  • "I can not wait for it to begin", indicates the journalist, who hopes to seduce a large audience with this "series of 38 episodes the most exciting possible".

It's the surprise of the offseason, in a world of football TV rights that has gone all over the place.

As part of a partnership with Amazon, the L'Equipe channel will broadcast eight multiplex matches per Ligue 2 day during the 2020-2021 fiscal year. During the first ten days, these eight matches on Saturday 7 p.m. will also be visible. in full and just as free on dedicated broadcast channels.

As part of a “rotating” presentation, Bertrand Latour (28) will be the Mr. Loyal of the inaugural evening alongside the consultant Régis Brouard, this Saturday from 6:40 pm.

What will your role be on Saturday night?

Present, distribute the floor to the various commentators and leave it willingly if there is a goal on one of the fields.

But also seek the advice of Régis Brouard, who knows Ligue 2 perfectly after having played many matches, especially as a coach (Clermont, Niort, Red Star).

D-2 before the resumption!

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What matches will you watch during this 1st day of @ Ligue2BKT which promises to be exciting?

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- Ligue 2 BKT (@ Ligue2BKT) July 22, 2021

This is the first time that you are going to manage a multiplex ...

I discovered the exercise on TV but I did a lot of it on the radio, for several years on RTL.

I was around the table even though I wasn't the one presenting.

Are you feeling stress?

No.

More like excitement.

I can't wait for it to start.

This is the first time that L2 has been broadcast in the clear.

It's a pride for everyone to be able to offer this to viewers.

I saw a real enthusiasm among football fans when there was the announcement of the broadcast of the multiplex by the channel L'Equipe.

The idea is to be up to the task.

Have you reviewed all the staff or are you counting on Régis Brouard?

I was already watching the matches.

I have worked even more carefully over the past few days to be on top.

Régis is there to provide his expertise but I want to know as much as possible to be as precise in my questions and my exchanges with the commentators.

And also, quite simply, out of respect for those who watch us, who will be for a good part of the supporters of the clubs broadcast during the multiplex, who know the 20 players of their pro workforce inside out.

There will also be viewers who know less about Ligue 2, who will discover it and perhaps become passionate about this championship.

It is a question of being both as precise as possible for people who know, and of being able to popularize.

The target is wide ...

We are on a general public channel, in the clear.

We must not exclude people.

The goal is to take them by the hand and decipher what is going on.

We have eight stadiums, antenna open for everyone.

The idea is that there are goals in all directions, that the guys open their microphone and say “goal” on one side, “goal” on the other, and then Regis is there. to show the viewer what he will not have seen.

Suspense, emotion… If there is that, we will have won.

Why did you choose TFC - Ajaccio as your first managerial match?

Last year, Toulouse had a very good season, Ligue 1 was not far away.

But we do not forbid ourselves anything.

We are not going to be blind to what is happening elsewhere.

The principle of the multiplex is the surprise.

We start with an idea but it's sport, it is not written in advance.

Will there be a buzzer or a "jingle" for each goal scored?

No.

This is not the choice we made.

We prefer that the commentators scream as soon as the ball crosses the line.

It will be up to me and then to the other presenters to manage this happy organized mess.

We want it to be instantaneous and that we can be surprised.

For several years, it has been expensive to follow club football ...

That's why it's exceptional.

No one expected that Ligue 2 could be broadcast unencrypted on the L'Equipe channel.

It's a chance for the channel, the people who work there, as well as for the viewers, whether or not they support the teams concerned.

With eight games, there will necessarily be goals, things will necessarily happen.

We will focus on characters, like coaches who come from the elite and whom people know.

And then there is suspense.

Last season, until the last moment, we didn't know who was going to go up, who was going to play in the play-offs, who would go down.

People get caught up in the game and it will go on crescendo.

We are happy to broadcast the @ Ligue2BKT multiplex on @lachainelequipe for the 2021/2022 season!

Our channel, free and accessible to all, is a natural and necessary complement to the offer of paying players, serving viewers, clubs and football.

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- Laurent Prud'homme (@LaurentPrudhom) July 13, 2021

Juventus president Andrea Agnelli claims young people would struggle to follow an entire game.

Can the principle of the multiplex, where you switch from one match to another, correspond to certain expectations, to a certain audience?

I do not endorse Agnelli's words.

I find it serious on the part of a leader of a big club to distort sport.

Afterwards, when you watch one game at a time, it can happen that you are disappointed.

When there are eight, it is less likely to be.

We decided to have a managerial match so that there was a plot in the evening, but also not to miss anything.

The goals, the red cards, the penalties will energize the evening.

This makes the product attractive and maybe for a younger audience it is even better.

But I want to hope - I'm not very old myself - that you can last 90 minutes in front of a football match.

Can free access attract a new audience?

Necessarily.

I see it and measure it because I go to different stadiums in France, because I am often a special envoy, on Ligue 1 and also the Coupe de France.

I feel that people are tired of paying, of having to change their subscription because the rights holders change over the years.

There is also a crisis.

Pay-TV dropouts will be able to watch these matches with a particularly interesting product.

There are people who will rediscover clear football.

You have to make this 38-episode series as exciting as possible.

Have you been set an audience target?

To be transparent, I have never been told of any number.

I was asked to present this multiplex in the most professional way possible, with enthusiasm because it is a chance to be able to launch this season of L2 on the channel L'Equipe.

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