FC Rouen announces surprising Champions League ambitions
These days, FC Rouen are remembered as the underdogs who made an impressive run to the quarter-finals of last season’s Coupe de France, defeating AS Monaco and Toulouse FC in the process, before ultimately losing to Valenciennes. .
However, it wasn’t the most spectacular season in the league, as they finished 7th in France’s third tier, National 1. Although they are in 12th place with just one win this season, the president has big ambitions.
Dutchman Ivan Postel recently took over as president of the French club and plans to replace them. Speaking to France 3 Normandy, he outlined his plans for Rouen. He said the “minimum ambition” was to be in League Two in the short term and in League One in the medium term, adding that the club needed to “raise the bar” every two years.
And he revealed an astonishing ambition. “People will say I’m crazy, but I have an ambition that FC Rouen will be in the UEFA Champions League in seven years’ time,” Postel said. After years of uncertainty at the French club, the Dutchman is keen to put Rouen back on the football map.
GFFN |Luke Entwistle
