{"id":48,"date":"2011-07-22T09:47:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T07:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simms.ch\/wordpress\/?p=48"},"modified":"2020-12-21T16:26:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T15:26:55","slug":"la-fin-de-la-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"La fin de la d\u00e9b\u00e2cle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, what a shambles that all was.\u00a0 The writing was on the wall for more than a season but in the end no workable solutions could be found and GF38 as a professional club is no more.\u00a0 From CFA1 to the heights of Ligue 1 (and for a fleeting instant, the top of Ligue 1) in little more than a decade always seemed to be the stuff of fairy tales, and in the end it proved to be little more than a brief illusion.\u00a0 No solid structures, no realistic financial management, no long-term planning: the decline and fall was even quicker than the rise and was accordingly spectacular.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It seems that the amateur section of the club will be starting again in CFA2, which is probably a fair level.\u00a0 Quite where they will play remains to be seen, as the Stade des Alpes would be a ludicrous venue for fifth division football, even if the necessary financial arrangements could be made.\u00a0 Fifteen years after the creation by merger of the new GF38, we have a shiny new and sadly empty stadium and a football team exactly where it was before.\u00a0 <em>Plus \u00e7a change<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, what a shambles that all was.\u00a0 The writing was on the wall for more than a season but in the end no workable solutions could be found and GF38 as a professional club is no more.\u00a0 From CFA1 to the heights of Ligue 1 (and for a fleeting instant, the top of Ligue 1) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}