While the French Championship resumes its rights this Saturday August 5, with the first day of Ligue 2, a notable absentee is to be regretted.
French football experienced a weekend full of emotions. One of its historical representatives is on the verge of extinction in the professional world. FC Sochaux will not start the Ligue 2 season this Saturday and its future worries.
The club founded almost 100 years ago, and at the origin of the first Professional French Championship, saw Thursday the Administrative Court of Paris rejected its appeal formulated after failures before the DNCG and the CNOSF. To the delight of FC Annecy, drafted by the LFP.
A reference training club
As a result, Romain Peugeot has abandoned his takeover project, incompatible according to him for a division lower than Ligue 2, and FC Sochaux is going straight to National 3 or filing for bankruptcy. Twice French champions (1935 and 1938), the Doubiste club also has two French Cups (1937, 2007) and a League Cup (2004) in its showcase.
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We do not forget either the formidable European adventure of the Cubs in 1980-1981 completed in the semi-finals of the Uefa Cup. A time when Sochaux training was a reference.
After Ruty, Bonnevay, Sauzée, Paille, in particular, emerged Pedretti, Frau, Menez, Erding, Mathieu, Martin, Ryad Boudebouz and again I. Konaté and M. Thuram.
