It’s a crazy season! The enthusiasm of Christophe Bruguier, a fervent of the Alterna SPVB, is shared by an entire city. This year, the volleyball in Poitiers will have offered great emotions. First of all there was the return of the country’s child: the double Olympic champion Earvin Ngapeth. A salvation concluded in December in front of an Arena Futuroscope full to crack and a derby won against the neighbor Touraine. “In parallel, let’s not forget, we also had the adventure with Dusan (Nikolic). A great person, player as a man “Slides Monique Blanchard, thirty years of supporterism to the clock.
“We hadn’t experienced this for a long time”
And now the Alterna SPVB has decided to extend the pleasure with an irrational adventure. Sixth at the end of the regular season, the adventure in play-offs brought the club in the semi-finals, for the moment. A first since 2012 that woke up a whole people, especially during the fourth quarter -final match against Tourcoing on April 14, 2025. “An incandescent atmosphere in the cauldron that is Lawson-Body. We hadn’t experienced this for a long time. Some speak of the time of the title in 1999 … Personally, it reminds me that of 2012 “compares Monique Blanchard.
The madness had also taken over a fifth decisive match won outside in the North. “Very quickly, we thought we had to go, tells Christophe Bruguier. We put a car, four! »» In place in the room in Roubaix, the Poitevins were hung up over the five sets “The configuration of the room did not help us. Unfortunately, Patchi (Franco Massimino) told me that they had not been able to hear our songs. »» Regardless, it is often said that it is the intention that counts, such a displacement is proof of this. “We left after the match, we returned to 6 am. Saturday? I bunched up! »»
-A closed counter match
For this return match of the semi-final against Chaumont on Friday evening, it will not be a question of bubble in the stands. All of the tickets were sold in a handful of hours. Proof of the enthusiasm that the current results arouse. “The regulars necessarily meet the appointmentobserves Charlotte Malbernard, president of the Lawson Club. And perhaps novices, who came to see Earvin at the start of the season, caught up in the game and come back with the good results! »»
All these beautiful people, united by “The conviviality of our cauldron”will be able to lead his players to a qualification in the final of the French championship. “We lend ourselves to dream”Subtly slides Charlotte Malbenard. In this dream? Inevitably, a duel with Tours, the best enemy of the SPVB. “This match has a little extra thing with two extraordinary audiences. We even got friends there, so we hope it will be done ”launches Monique Blanchard who, superstition obliges, will not wear black and white in Lawson-Body this Friday evening!
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