Iwan Postel, president of FC Rouen currently in National, hopes to “fill a stadium with 40,000 or 50,000 seats” in the long term, relying on its Turkish owner who arrived last June.
FC Rouen sets no limits, according to its president Iwan Postel. Demoted to National 2 at the end of last season by the DNCG, the financial watchdog of French football, the club had just been taken over by Turkish businessman Tarkan Ser in June. On July 9, Rouen was finally kept in the National (3rd division) after appealing the decision.
From now on, the Norman club puffs out its chest and dreams big. “My personal ambition is for FCR to play in the Champions League in seven years”declared Iwan Postel in the columns of Sports Daily . “One or two years to move up to the League 2»The same “to show in the League 1 and after, we have three years left to reach the Champions League. There are other clubs that have succeeded, so why not us? ?»ignites the Rouen president from the Netherlands.
Joan of Arc and the “landing of the Americans”
Founded in 1899, FC Rouen has not played in the elite of French football since 1985. Postel wants to press the “cultural side of Rouen”. And to move forward: “Not all the cities in France can claim to be the city of Joan of Arc, which are the capital of Normandy, where the American landing took place. I have a project that will be released in the coming weeks… A huge project, I will bring you Americans back to Rouen !» A project which would amount to “hundreds of millions, even billions of euros”.
Postel even believes he can “fill a stadium with 40 000 or 50 000 places». Rouen’s historic lair, the Robert-Diochon stadium, has a capacity of 8,300 seats. The team coached by Régis Brouard is currently ranked 13th in the National with seven points behind the podium, and two ahead of the red zone.
