Paul Rouget: published on Friday February 05, 2021 at 4:11 p.m.
While Téléfoot will broadcast its last French football match on Sunday evening during OM-PSG, journalist Marina Lorenzo said a very moving farewell on the last of her show on Friday.
The adventure of the Téléfoot channel will soon end. Launched at the start of the season by Mediapro, it will not survive the withdrawal of the Sino-Spanish group, unable to settle all the rights of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2. And while Canal + will broadcast all of the French elite from the 25th day, from February 12 to 14, the Classic between Olympique de Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain Sunday evening will be the last French football match broadcast by Téléfoot. While waiting to know if the channel will continue to co-broadcast the matches of the Champions League and the Europa League, the last of the program “At the heart of the clubs” took place on Friday. A “big emotion” for its presenter Marina Lorenzo, who could not restrain her tears on the air.
“Football without the fans is not much”
“This is how this crazy adventure ends. I will not leave you like that without thanking you already, for having followed us, for being with us. Thank you to the clubs, to the press officers, to the coaches , to the players, of course, who did not let us go, they were really with us until the end … It is often in times of crisis that we see that there are gentlemen in this middle … And there were plenty …, she continued without being able to suppress sobs. Thanks for the support, really. It was public, private, and that allowed us to go through with our mission. And jI think our mission was not in vain. We’ve been talking a lot, a lot about money when it comes to football lately. I think this is not the main thing, although it is important. We are all football fans, all supporters and we obviously only want football to survive, our clubs to survive … There are a lot of decisions that have passed us, but we took great pleasure in talking about the game with the players, and the ambitions with the coaches and managers. This mission, we held it to the end thanks to all of you. And really, it is heartwarming. Football without the fans is not much or nothing at all. ”
