Red Star supporters boycott relocated "home" matches in Beauvais

Bis repetita for the Red Star. Like three years ago, the Saint-Ouen team (Seine-Saint-Denis) will have to play their home games in Beauvais (Oise). The Bauer stadium of the club is not up to standard to host meetings of Domino's League 2.

The promoted is sentenced to exile far from his stadium, and the pill is struggling to Red Star supporters, says Maxence Chutet-Mezence, president of the Red Star Bauer Collective. "There is a feeling of déjà-vu, a rather bitter after-taste, for us, it is once again a real torment.If we take a panel of 100 people, and that out of 100, it there are only 20 who can go to Beauvais, we see neither the interest nor the impact, much less the pleasure. "

There will be no supporters in Beauvais Friday July 27 for the resumption of the Domino's Ligue 2, despite the rise and alchemy created with the players last season. "I'm unhappy that they made this decision," commented Regis Brouard, the Red Star coach who says he understands this decision. However, the coach insists: "We need their presence and support, they were incredibly important last season, they earned us points."

I hope that they will come to their senses and that it is only ephemeral, we will do the necessary on the ground at the level of the results so that they can return Régis Brouard to franceinfo

Defender Maxence Derrien also testifies how important this support was. "At home, it was really amazing, we knew that at Bauer we could count on them, we felt a certain strength, we will have to do without it, it is certain that at Bauer we would have been good and that there, it will not be the same ".

Steve Marlet, the sports manager remembers that his club has already been forced to play Beauvais. According to him, this experience of three years ago shows that it is possible to make, despite everything, a good season. "We knew how to adapt, we even did our best season in Ligue 2 that year, we'll try to do the same."

In the meantime, what fans fear, is to live a long time away from Bauer. "The Red Star will lose what makes its club, its originality, if we were to leave this stage" explains Maxence Chutet-Mezence, president of the Collective Red Star Bauer . Calls for projects have been launched to redevelop the stadium, a choice will be made in May 2019.