The Ligue 1 match between AS Monaco and Lyon relocated to China?
Updated on 10/21/2021 at 4:29 PM
Published on 10/21/2021 4:10 PM
The Ligue 1 match between AS Monaco and Lyon relocated to China?
10/21 at 4:10 p.m.
Update 10/21 at 4:29 p.m.
According to L’Equipe, the match between AS Monaco and Lyon counting for the 23rd day of the League could take place … in China!
Monaco-Lyon, poster for the 23rd day (February 4-6), could be played elsewhere than at the Louis-II stadium. More than 9,000 kilometers further east, in Shanghai, China. This is what L’Equipe announces on its site.
The LFP, faced with financial difficulties linked to the Covid crisis and the failure of Mediapro, seeks to promote its football internationally. This is the reason why this Ligue 1 match is being played in the Chinese megalopolis, on a date when there are no European Cup matches.
“The League, with its president Vincent Labrune, is at the origin of this project”, declared Jean-Michel Aulas, the president of OL to our colleagues.
“I invited Oleg (Petrov, vice-president of Monaco) to dinner, we talked about it at length. Monaco agrees, and I gave an agreement in principle on condition that the logistics follow because that is still a big trip. This is an ambitious operation for the image of Ligue 1 and its distribution. ”
For this match to still take place in China, the LFP must obtain the agreement of Fifa, which refused previous requests for rooms from Spain, for the Villarreal-Atlético Madrid and Girona-Barcelona matches to be placed in Miami. .
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The Ligue 1 match between AS Monaco and Lyon relocated to China?