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Yvelines: they played a long football match… of 12 hours!

Final score… 75-72. It was not a basketball match but a football match that was played on Sunday in Fontenay-le-Fleury, near Versailles (Yvelines). In turn, 220 players, educators, leaders, parents or partners followed one another, on the Descartes stadium, to play an “environmental match”, from dawn to dusk.

That’s 12 hours kicking the same ball, in collaboration with the Football Ecology France association. The management team got the ball rolling at 7:47 a.m., followed by the little ones, the under 6s (U6) then the under 7s (U7). On the sidelines of this extended meeting, workshops to raise awareness of environmental issues were organized. “We want to be an eco-responsible club,” summarizes the young president Marc Maloisel. We educate our children in our own way, we encourage them to think about their future, it’s fundamental work. »

Fontenay-le-Fleury, Sunday.

For two years and taking office, the 29-year-old man, who grew up in Fontenay-le-Fleury and evolves in the flag team of Departmental 3 (the equivalent of the 11th division), multiplies the actions to respond to the big social issues such as environmental protection, gender equality or access to and awareness of culture. A football section was created with the college of the town of 13,000 inhabitants, for ten 6th graders. The club also offers homework help and some of its young people are currently putting on a play in collaboration with the town theatre.

Last year, another challenge with PSG players

In the same process, the club with 500 members has created a women’s section that carries values. The specific jerseys of its licensees display on the back the name of personalities who have marked history such as Simone Veil, Marie Curie or Joséphine Baker. Substantive work which is bearing fruit since the Yvelin club has received the Youth label from the FFF for the period 2022-2025.

Here, the club’s slogan “the future is written now, welcome to Fontenay” is not an empty word. Sunday, the waste collection sessions in the forest had therefore given way to “a completely crazy challenge”, according to the president, organized on the occasion of the True Foot Day in collaboration with the magazine SoFoot. A year ago, in this context, two PSG players, Thilo Kehrer and Julian Draxler, came to challenge the club’s licensees in the purest spirit of amateur football.

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