The pressure rises for the LFP. It is in just over three weeks, Friday August 15 with the Rennes-OM poster (8:45 p.m.), that the new Ligue 1+ platform will be launched. A big bet for the Professional Football League which, after stopping the contract with Dazn and in the absence of a new broadcaster, had no really choice than to create his own channel.
With what consultants? If several journalists have already joined the editorial team, like Xavier Domergue, Thibault Le Rol, Marina Lorenzo, Smaïl Bouabdellah, Sébastien Dupuis and Lesly Boitrelle, only Benoît Cheyrou was confirmed as an analyst. A cast for the moment quite light. If the LFP has approached some big names, it has suffered a lot of refusals.
Ligue 1+ continues refusals
Samir Nasri, Raphaël Varane, Eden Hazard: all were surveyed, according to The team. In vain. The name of Franck Ribéry also circulated but nothing was confirmed. Former consultant for Canal+, much appreciated by viewers, Éric Carrière was also requested. “Not officially”he confides in the media Capturedbut the
” No “ that he addressed to the League was
“Categorical”.
“When you work every day in your business (it is now a wine merchant in Dijon, editor's note) and you like it, that's a big point, afterwards, start again on weekends … You would tell me that you are going to go and comment on matches from time to time, I would say yes, that would make me happy. But in fact, it is at the expense of other things ”explains the former French terrain (52).
Eric Carrière's “non -categorical”
“The other thing is obviously family, friends, children have grown uphe continues. There, I find myself in the situation where our eldest daughter had a little boy. When they are available, I rather want to be available than their that I am going to comment on a match at the other end of France. »» Three years after his last comment, the page is therefore turned.
“It's not just the idea of professional football and the image that it returns. It remains the game that I prefer and that I think I control a little, whether in practice or analysishe says. Me, when I stopped, it was also a question of pro balance of life and personally. I like the business community very much. I find things that I have experienced in sport too. »»
“There is not the adrenaline of certain matches, but there is management, team spiritcontinues Éric Carrière, passed by Nantes, Lyon, Lens and Dijon when he was a player. I did twelve years by consulting and then about fifteen years in the professional world as a player. But if I am forgotten, it does not matter. This is not the end of the world. »» Too bad for Ligue 1+.
