It is, for every football player, a childhood dream. Playing in the 32nd final of the prestigious Coupe de France against a professional team is often an unattainable dream. However, Hugo Robert had offered himself this right.
With his partners from the Iris Club de Croix Football, a National 3 team (5th French level) of which he is captain, they qualified last weekend for this round of the Coupe de France which sees the entry into the running of the big Ligue 1 clubs.
During the draw, carried out on Monday December 1, the club from a small town in the North located between Roubaix and Lille inherited Reims, the current fourth in Ligue 2 and unfortunate finalist of the last edition against PSG. The match is scheduled for December 20 at 3:30 p.m. The party was going to be great…
But Hugo Robert will have to give up on this meeting. And the 29-year-old has a good excuse. He is indeed due to get married that day. The time of the ceremony is the same as that of the kickoff of the meeting. Her wedding date has been planned for a long time and is impossible to change so close to the event.
They tried to advance the match
According to BFMTV Grand Lille, the club contacted the French Football Federation to try to change the day of the match, to bring it forward to Friday evening. In vain! Asked, the Marcq-en-Barœul club, which played its 32nd final against Troyes the day before, also agreed to exchange slots. But the final decision, and the refusal, would have been decided by the broadcasters.
Another unusual consequence of this situation, Thomas Coppin, number 10 of the team, is… the best man at the wedding of his friend Hugo Robert. “No question of depriving yourself of a second key player,” smiles the president of the Iris Club de Croix, Patrice Weynants, at the microphone of BFMTV. Some members of the team are obviously invited to the wedding! It’s crazy. »
If, for many, marriage corresponds to the happiest day of their life, for Hugo Robert it risks having a particular taste. The guests’ tables may therefore seem empty and the glasses of champagne a little bitter… Unless there is an incredible turnaround.
