Before returning to the region in 2016 to GOAL FC, before moving to FC Limonest (N3) since 2022, Sébastien Faure experienced other, much stronger atmospheres. Trained at OL, the 33-year-old defender headed to Scotland and Rangers in 2012, after the liquidation of the club due to serious financial problems and its demotion to D4.
Initially, the project didn't motivate him that much. But once there, he understood the weight of the club with 55 league titles in Glasgow, where OL meet on Thursday evening for the second day of the Europa League, as mentioned to Olympique-et-Lyonnais: “I'm doing my first training session and in the evening there is a League Cup match. And there, 38,000 people at Ibrox at the beginning of August. I hallucinate and am spellbound. We weren't professionals, not in their place. It's as if OL or OM went down to N2. And the Rangers are even more legendary. During this season, there were 45,000 spectators on average, it was always full. […] The difference between France and Scotland? When 50,000 people start singing and clapping their hands, that has nothing to do with it. »
A supercharged atmosphere this Thursday
The religion of Rangers is not about to die out, and the atmosphere will be different this Thursday than for the opening of the Europa League, where the two corners of the Groupama Stadium were closed against Olympiakos.
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