Stéphane Place 8:59 am, August 28, 2021
After long months without matches due to the health crisis, amateur football is relaunching this weekend, with the resumption of competition.
Relief and excitement are felt, especially in La Brède, where our correspondent Stéphane Place visited.
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"Leave the ground, press your passes!"
At the edge of the field, Damien Bonave, the coach of the La Brède football team, who plays in Regional 1, does not relax his vigilance.
Sunday, his eleven amateur will face Blanquefort in the Bordeaux suburbs, after long months without competition because of the Covid-19.
A recovery marked by the desire to win, of course, and the certainty of finding all the little moments that everyone missed so much.
"Rediscover the taste for effort all together"
"We are going to enter the field, with the music which gives the atmosphere a little, the exchanges of glances with the opponents, we challenge each other a little", rejoices in advance Alex, 32, midfielder.
"And even in a locker room, we will find a taste for effort all together and for competition."
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To resume, Alex had to comply with the rule of the sanitary pass.
"I was among the first to be vaccinated," he says.
While the virus has not gone away, the excitement is noticeable on the eve of the first resumption match.
"Even if we maintained throughout the confinement a physical interview, weekly sessions depending on curfews, etc., there was not this adrenaline", recognizes Damien Bonave.
"We have been deprived of too long"
"There, we will find this adversity also in front of the public. Football is above all a moment of sharing. The rules of life are now different but from the moment the boys pass the gate, they all have a valid health pass. The same goes for the public. We have been deprived of our passion for too long and we will be there. "
This weekend, in Gironde alone, around 80 matches are scheduled with the resumption of the Coupe de France.