“Lyon will be European champions in three or four years”, predicts a very optimistic Edmilson
Present this Tuesday evening at Groupama Stadium for the “heroes’ match” for the benefit of Unicef, the former midfielder of OL Edmilson (2000-2004) quickly mentioned the situation of the Rhone club. With immense optimism.
This is a statement that contrasts a little – a lot – with the delicate period that Olympique Lyonnais is going through. Present this Tuesday evening at Groupama Stadium for the “hero match” for the benefit of Unicef and Ukrainian children, the former midfielder of OL Edmilson (2000-2004), three times champion of France, quickly mentioned the situation of the Rhone club. By predicting very beautiful moments… in a very short time.
“Lyon have been doing great things for 20 years, called the 45-year-old Brazilian. Now he has a stadium, a clean training center, and I think that in three to four years OL will be European champions. “Sure. The president has a very humble mentality and that’s important in the foot. Many presidents only think of today or tomorrow. Jean-Michel Aulas, he thinks ten years ahead. I hope that he will have the health to see Lyon become European champions.”
Aulas recognized him as failures
The fact remains that today, Lyon is only 8th in Ligue 1, and that it will probably not be European next season. A real failure, which Aulas rightly returned to on Tuesday in an open letter to supporters.
“We stumbled, but above all we are getting up, we have learned and we are more than ever on our feet, even stronger if you are with us, wrote the leader in particular. We must face our mistakes so as not to no longer reproduce them, without hiding or making excuses for us”. And to look ahead: “I also want to reassure you and remind you that not everything is played out in a single season when you are an institution as solid as ours. Remember the failures and reconstructions of AC Milan, Inter Milan, Juventus or Atlético (…) The mistake would be to burn what we loved to better reduce to ashes what is our history, but also our ambition”.