Ligue 1. Finally, the Olympique Lyonnais-Monaco match will not be played in China
Through Nicolas Drusien
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Big backpedal on the side of the Professional Football League. A week ago, an agreement was reached with Olympique Lyonnais and AS Monaco for their meeting to be relocated to China on February 6, 2022.
This will not be the case, said the president of the FLP Vincent Labrune this Thursday, October 28, 2021, reveals the newspaper The team. The reason: too many health constraints related to Covid-19. “But the objective of organizing matches abroad continues to help the development of Ligue 1 internationally.”
“More reasonable to backtrack”
But why would two Ligue 1 teams go head to head in a Shanghai stadium against a Chinese audience? The idea was to promote the French championship well beyond its borders.
A way to make Ligue 1 football attractive, and maybe sell some broadcast international rightss for tens of millions of euros. But the constraints of moving to China were far too great.
Near The team, the president of Olympique Lyonnais, Jean-Michel Aulas, part of the quarantine problems but also the presence of international competitions in the period when OL and Monaco should have faced each other. “It’s more reasonable to backtrack,” he said.
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