Jean-Claude Darmon, Vendée Globe rookie and French street football on screen this week | OneFootball

According to L'Équipe, three sports documentaries land this week, spanning Jean-Claude Darmon, a Vendée Globe outsider and French street football in Rio.

L'Argentier screens on Canal+ at 21:00 on Sunday, a 90-minute portrait of Jean-Claude Darmon, who drove French football’s commercial boom from the 1970s to 2004 after selling Sportfive. Director Florent Bodin traces his path from Oran and Marseille docks to boardrooms.

Darmon says he pioneered stadium ads, matchday shows, VIP tribunes and TV rights, a claim backed by notable voices including Patrick Bruel, Xavier Niel, Didier Deschamps, Michel Denisot, Pierre Lescure and Laurent Tapie. Nicolas Sarkozy sees loquacity as a guard against impostor fears.

Un outsider sur le Vendée Globe airs on Canal+ Docs at 21:00 on Thursday, charting Benjamin Ferré’s route to a 2024 Vendée Globe bid after third in the 2019 Mini-Transat series and a meeting with Jean Le Cam. Clarisse Crémer, who sold him Banque Populaire X, says he embraces uncertainty. From the Transat CIC in May 2024, Éloi Saint-Bris and Romain de l'Ecotais follow him across three 30-minute episodes.

Tudo bem lands on Ligue1+ at 19:30 on Friday, then from next Tuesday on its YouTube channel, a 24-minute trip to Rio. JNK Akademy founder John Nkomb takes five French players to face carioca peers in one-on-ones on Rocinha’s small synthetic pitch. The aim is to show tcheks play can match joga bonito, amid banter, footvolley on Leblon beach and photos on the heights of Rio.

Source: L'Équipe