Yvelines: They played a long football match… 12 hours!

Final score… 75-72. It was not a basketball but a football match played on Sunday at Fontenay-le-Fleury, near Versailles (Yvelines). In turn, 220 players, educators, leaders, parents or partners followed each other in the Descartes stadium to play an “ecological match” from dawn to dusk.

It’s 12 hours of kicking the same ball in collaboration with Football Ecology France. The management team went into action at 7:47 am, followed by the smallest, under 6 (U6) and then under 7 (U7). Seminars to raise awareness of environmental issues were organized on the sidelines of this extended meeting. “We want to be an environmentally responsible club,” sums up young president Marc Malowazel. We raise our children in our own way, we encourage them to think about their future, this is fundamental work. »

Two years before taking office, the 29-year-old, who grew up in Fontenay-le-Fleury and moved to the flagship team of the 3rd department (the equivalent of the 11th division), multiplies actions to respond to big social issues, such as protecting the environment , gender equality, or access to and awareness of culture. In the college of the city with a population of 13,000 residents, a football section has been created for ten sixth graders. The club also offers help with homework and some of its young people are currently putting on a play in collaboration with the city theatre.

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In the same process, the 500-member club created a women’s section that carries values. The T-shirts of its licensees bear on the back the names of personalities who left their mark on history, such as Simone Weil, Marie Curie or Josephine Baker. Substantive work that is bearing fruit, as the Yvelines club received the Youth label from the FFF for the period 2022-2025.

Here the club’s slogan “the future is written now, welcome to Fontenay” is not an empty phrase. Thus, on Sunday, the woods’ garbage collection sessions gave way to a “completely insane challenge,” according to the president, organized on the occasion of True Foot Day in collaboration with SoFoot magazine. A year ago, in this context, two PSG players, Thilo Kehrer and Julian Draxler, came to challenge the club’s licensees in the purest spirit of amateur football.