His name had been pronounced several times during the summer by recruits, convinced by his speech. He attended the preparation matches and the first two victorious outings in National 3 of the Union Foot of Touraine. Basile Riboud, the businessman who put himself in mind to relaunch football in Touraine, then mentioned “A friend and an advisor”. This Monday 1is September 2025, Olivier Pickeu is now officially the general manager of the UFT.
At 55, the new Tourangeau leader is a figure in hexagonal football. Former striker in D1 and D2, trained in Caen and passed by Montpellier, Toulouse, Amiens, Lille, Le Mans and Reims, Olivier Pickeu had already evolved at the FC Tours, loaned by Stade Malherbe, in 1990-1991. “At the same time I was doing my military service at the Joinville battalion, The new UFT leader has fun. And my attachment to Touraine also comes from fourteen years past in Angers; There was the proximity of the neighbor and I have friends in Tours and I came there regularly. »»
An appointment that has decided “naturally”
Olivier Pickeu will therefore settle there permanently. “We have been exchanging a lot for weeks on the situation of football in Touraine, on the local context, on the unhappy disappearance of the FC towers, explains Basile Riboud. And the passage of “advisor-ad” to manage itself was finally made natural. »»
Note that, in the UFT organization chart, Christophe Fayard remains a good managing director of operations.
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