The president of Football-club de la Valdaine (FC Valdaine), a small amateur soccer club that объединяет the neighboring French villages of Puy-Saint-Martin and Cléon-d’Andran, has announced he is stepping away from the role.
Word of the departure has been circulating in the amateur soccer scene in France’s Drôme department. As of the announcement, no successor had been officially named.
A shared club for two villages in the Drôme foothills
FC Valdaine is the joint sports organization for Puy-Saint-Martin and Cléon-d’Andran, two rural communities in the foothills of the Drôme area in southeastern France. Like many small-town clubs, it runs largely on volunteer labor from its leadership.
In that kind of structure, a president leaving at the end of a season can be a sensitive moment, because continuity often depends on a small circle of committed people.
A leadership handoff still to be arranged
The outgoing president is stepping aside without a publicly identified replacement. In amateur soccer, the summer break between seasons is typically when these transitions happen.
End-of-season general assemblies usually provide the setting for electing a new leadership team and formally installing a new club board.
The volunteer challenge in village soccer
At this level, finding someone willing to take on the administrative workload—handling paperwork, seeking sponsors, and managing relationships with the regional league—is far from automatic.
FC Valdaine will need to name a new president quickly to move forward with affiliation steps and recruiting ahead of the restart.
So far, the available information does not specify the outgoing president’s record in the job or the exact timeline for the succession.
