The Variétés club de France organizes a gala match in Pau on June 24

Julien Moreau / Photo credit: Ludovic MARIN / AFP 17:00 p.m., April 25, 2023

The football club, Jeanne d'Arc de Béarn Pau, will celebrate its 120th anniversary next June. For the occasion, the club will face, during a gala match, the Variétés club de France, on Saturday, June 24. The Pau players will have the opportunity to face the coach of the France team, Didier Deschamps, the 1998 world champion, Christian Karembeu, the former coach of Arsenal, Arsène Wenger, the 1984 European champion, Alain Giresse, or the Saint-Etienne legend, Dominique Rocheteau.

Last March, the players of the Variétés Club de France, went to the Vatican to meet Pope Francis and face a team of 18 priests and seminarians from the Vatican.

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Jean Larqué Stadium

This match will have a special flavor for Jean-Michel Larqué, former glory of AS Saint-Étienne and active member of the VCF. His paternal grandmother was the goalkeeper of the stadium for many years and his father, Jean, also worked for several decades for this club in the city of Pau.

Moreover, the stadium where the JAB plays will be renamed in the name of Jean Larqué, the father of the famous midfielder of the 70s. "It was his life until he was 85. At that time, the stadium did not look like today. It was necessary to fill a canal and add the adjoining workers' gardens to make it a land to standards. I experienced a lot of family celebrations in this enclosure and I started football, "recalls Jean-Michel Larqué in the columns of Sud-Ouest.

In the meantime Saturday, June 24 in Pau 120th anniversary JAB PAU 16H. INAUGURATION OF JEAN LARQUE STADIUM. @VarietesCF@FFF with Didier Deschamps @fredpiqoff@Europe1@bayrou@SachaNoko@CNEWS@DimitriYachvili@Europe1Sport1@KARLOLIVE@sudouest@Geraud_nimo@Morineriepic.twitter.com/nBO1Npi3Nb

— Jacques Vendroux (@JacquesVendroux) April 2, 2023