Football: Avenir Foot Lozère begins its Regional 1 championship in Béziers

Le groupe mobilisé pour la Coupe de France le week-end dernier. DR – DR

Kick-off at 6pm, Saturday 7 September.

Avenir Foot Lozère has had a busy summer preparing for its 2024-2025 season. With Maxime Teissier announcing his departure at the end of last season, a new coach had to be found. Romain Canalès was therefore announced at the start of this season, but the adventure ended after a few weeks. It is now Nabil Zanina's turn to be inducted as coach of the flagship team.

If the championship starts this weekend, the season already started last Sunday, on the Chastel pitch. It was in the second round of the Coupe de France and the yellow and blue team upheld the logic against the resident of Départemental 2. A 7-0 victory thanks to two doubles from Maurin and Yousfi, goals from Prunet, Nguer and an own goal. Enough to gain confidence after some rather complicated days. In the next round, they will have to travel to Fenouillet, Régional 3.

Return to the East Occitanie group

But before the Coupe de France, it is the championship that is on the program for the weekend. The Lozériens will return to the East group of the Occitanie league. After the long trips in the Toulouse region last season, they will face the clubs of the former Languedoc-Roussillon. And, it is AS Béziers who stands in front of the Mendois for this first day. Still in Ligue 2, a few seasons ago, the Biterrois will be outsiders in this group A of Regional 1. The task will not be easy for a start of the championship, but it will be necessary to launch the season with certainly the debut of two recruits: Mouhamed Diallo, midfielder, from Gueugnon and Louis Laurent, goalkeeper, from Alès.

But Zanina's players will not be the only ones to be on deck this weekend. The reserve team, of the new coach Hien, receives Espoir Foot, Sunday, at 3 p.m., in Rouffiac for its debut in Regional 3. After last season's relegation, it will be important to quickly take points.

As for team 3, which is moving up from D2 to D1 and still coached by Daniel Teissier, it receives Lévézou, Saturday evening, at the Causse d'Auge, at 7 p.m.

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