The businessman and former president of Rugby Club Toulonnais Mourad Boudjellal announced on Saturday that he was leaving the presidency of FC Hyères (N2, 4th div.), of which he will still remain the majority shareholder.
“I will still be there as the majority shareholder, but no longer on a day-to-day basis. I’m more often in Paris (he joined the Madrigall comics publishing house, Gallimard group, editor’s note). I was born in the book and the passion came back very strong,” he said at a press conference.
“I am not retiring, but the one who will carry the weight of defeats and victories is Nicolas Garrigues. But I will always be there for the big decisions,” he added. Local entrepreneur, Nicolas Garrigues was already associated with Mourad Boudjellal in the takeover of FC Hyères in June 2021.
The former president of the RCT also explained that he had a very bad experience of the episode of the Coupe de France match between his club and OM in January, played in Martigues after the ban imposed by the authorities of the organized at the Stade Mayol in Toulon.
“It would have been a founding match for football in the Var. We filled two Mayol. But the rug was pulled from under our feet,” he said. He assured that complaints would be filed before the administrative court “against the State and the FFF”. “There is a senior civil servant who has privileged his career to the detriment of a collective celebration,” he said.
