Lézignan-Corbières: the FCL in humility mode moves to Toulouse
After a weekend of respite, the Lézignanais will go to Toulouse, this Sunday, October 30. A team in penultimate position in the standings against which the Corbières players will be wary.
Inevitably, after its resounding victory against the defending champion, Carcassonne, a fortnight ago, at the Moulin, one would think that the FCL will move, this Sunday, in Toulouse, with the flower in the rifle. Faced with this team, ranked in penultimate position in the Elite and totaling two consecutive defeats, there is plenty of room, on paper, to win.
But it is nothing! And it is even with a spirit of humility, even mistrust, that the people of Lézignan take to the road to the city of violets. “First of all because the people of Toulouse have made efforts in recruitment, they have a great team, tempers Alain Fabre, one of the co-presidents. Then also because these matches, which we say are winnable hands down, we know how to lose them: look at Saint-Gaudens”. The point has the merit of being clear: scalded cat fears cold water. And then, despite everything, as the leader points out: “If the Toulousains didn’t win, they didn’t take a beating either. As for us, we did win against the French champions but Carcassonne may also have missed out”. Lézignan will therefore keep a cool head, especially as some persistent uncertainties on the green and white bench.
A chance for young people to rub shoulders with players like Norman
Caution. But also confidence. Because this victory against the champion of France was still good for morale: we must not hide it. And then also because the FCL was able to recruit a player with great potential: the Australian Corey Norman. “Our institutional partners and some additional private partners have understood the importance of helping the club”, loose Alain Fabre delighted to be able to expand his workforce. A recruitment which, on social networks, could be criticized. But the leader cut short: “I hear, here and there, that these players will come to steal the place of young people: it’s nonsense. First of all because Norman does not come for the money but to find his friends, James Maloney and Jason Baiteri. Then because it’s a chance for our young people to rub shoulders with these players who will bring them experience and make them know what it takes to go as high as possible”.
Hard for juniors
On the side of the juniors, the task looks rough. Olivier Estebanez, sports coordinator, knows this more than anything: “We will be almost complete. But Toulouse is one of the strongest teams in this category… We know it: it’s a big piece that awaits us. The last meeting against them was in the semi-finals. last season’s championship final: we didn’t make landfall”. But impossible is not, either, Lézignanais!