If most Ligue 1 clubs will only resume in mid-August, for the start of the championship, Nice will attack its 2025-2026 season a week earlier. On Wednesday 6, the OGCN actually meets with Benfica in the third qualification round of the Champions League. A big piece for a gym team which, last year, did not win the slightest match in its Europa League group.
Are the Aiglons cut for this kind of challenge?
“There are always good thinkers who say that Nice should not be in the European Cup because Nice has not won a match, but that, to stay polite, I don't care, because they don't know what we have experienced”answers Franck Haise in an interview with
The teamthe Nice coach reminding he had to compose with “Between eight and thirteen less players”.
Franck Haise: “I don't care”
For him, the fact that the French Riviera has never had convincing results on a continental scale is not heralding a new disillusionment. “We always hear that when a team goes up, the second year is the most complicated, while if we look objectively, it's a heart, he said.
People tell so much that we are no longer close to it. All these limiting beliefs that everyone says, I don't care. »»
“What I want is that we are performing. If it is in the Champions League – what we all want – we know that it will be very, very hard, but our goal, it will be to show that we will have the levelcontinues the Nice coach. And if it were to be in the Europa League, we would say: last year, we were not up to par, whatever the reasons, we want to show another face. »» This would be good news for hexagonal football.
