“Dedicated to all those who come from the little towns,” Kamini could have sung for Rocquancourt if he had not already done it for Marly-Gomont. As a result, it was the local football club which took it upon itself to promote its village of a thousand inhabitants, near Caen, not for the treasures it concealed but because it “didn’t nothing happens.”
It is to a song by the little-known singer Damon Logan, performed by the equally little-known Jake Eff, that the equally little-known FC Rocquancourt filmed the presentation clip for its new jersey, “Warm up”.
“What the provincials know best: getting pissed off”
Instead of players, there are two young women wearing the navy blue knit crossed with red lines with gold edging, their eyes distant, a little sleepy but not too much. They are filmed in various places in the town, from the bus stop to the supermarket parking lot to the Buffalo Grill parking lot after a detour in the middle of the fields. And if the clip is rather stylish, nothing really happens there. They are completely bored, and that is also the title of the clip, “boredom”.
“Through this jersey, we wanted to symbolize what provincials like us know best: getting pissed off,” explains FC Rocquancourt. And the club readily recognizes that this is undoubtedly not the best way to “value where we come from”. Citing Orelsan, the “local of the stage”, FC Rocquancourt affirms that his commune, he “hates it as much (as he) surely loves it because we are the same”.
A self-deprecation which earned the local club honors from the press, starting with a paper in The Teaman invaluable fact for this district club whose sporting performances undoubtedly do not deserve such exposure. Whatever! If the club was eliminated from the race for the Coupe de France in the 2nd round of the preliminary phases in Normandy, it will perhaps recover in the departmental championship where it is second in the ranking of its group. Go Rocquancourt!
