Saturday, 12 December, 2020 - 09:45
Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas celebrates with the team after they beat Wolfsburg in the Champions League final in August.
Photograph: Getty Images London- Suzanne Wrack
In August the Lyon owner-president, Jean-Michel Aulas, felt he was close to realising an incredibly ambitious dream. For the second time during his 33 years in charge he had the men’s and women’s teams competing in the latter stages of the Champions Leagues. Could a historic double be achieved?
In 2010 the men failed to reach the final, while the women were runners-up after losing to Turbine Potsdam on penalties. A decade later, in a “quite exceptional” year, both Lyon teams were readying to play Bayern Munich, the men in a semi-final and the women in a quarter-final three days later.