Lens Lens - Rc Lens, Louvre-Lens, 1999 Coupe de La Ligue Final, Lens, Parc Lens, Louvre-Lens, 1999 Coupe de La Ligue Final, Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Coupe de France Final 1998, Coupe de France Fins-de-Calais, Coupe de France Final 1998, Coupe de France Final 1975 (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Rc Lens, Louvre-Lens, 1999 Coupe de La Ligue Final, Lens, Pas-De-Calais, Coupe de France Final 1998, Coupe de France Final 1975, Coupe de France Final 1948, Stade Flix-Bollaert, Derby Du Nord. Excerpt: Racing Club de Lens is a French football club which plays in the northern city of Lens, in the Pas-de-Calais dpartement. Its nickname, sang et or (English: ), comes from its traditional colours of red and gold. Their primary rivals are their northern neighbors Lille OSC, whom they contest the Derby du Nord. 1905, Lens. On the place Verte (the actual place de la Rpublique), students are playing football. They do not yet know that they are writing the first lines of the history of the Racing Club de Lens. Why this name? Football was invented in England, so it was good to have a club with an Anglo-Saxon name. Moreover, the youth of that time were following the Racing Club de Roubaix and the Racing Club de France. The first board was formed by the parents of those teenagers under the name of Racing club lensois, before the club would officially be registered under the name Racing Club de Lens in 1906. The club originally played in green, as the club was born on the place Verte, and the black, for the omnipresence of coal mining in the region. Between 1907 and 1912, the players were forced to change sports grounds a couple of times, before settling at the actual parc des Glissoires, between Avion and Lens. During World War I, the clubs activities were silenced, before restarting in 1919 with the help of the Americans. Lens was then playing in sky blue. It was in 1924 that the red and gold colours appeared. The legend says that Mr Moglia, president of the club from 1923 to 1930, chose the colours of the Spanish flag after someone from the club r... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1075697