GUINGAMP, France (AP) — The coaches went to their club president with a modest request: could he buy them a hut, locker or something to store their footballs and equipment?
“No,” replied Bertrand Desplat, “it costs money.”
With one of the puniest budgets in France’s top division, Guingamp can’t splash the cash like some of the mammoths — Qatar-owned Paris Saint-Germain being the prime example — it competes against and humbles from time to time.
Out here in one of the most unlikely backwaters of top-class football, in a Brittany town of 7,300 inhabitants, where fans attend games wearing jerseys marked ‘Proud to …read more
Source: KXAN
