French Football Convention: "Must invest in an international OTT platform" (J-H Eyraud, Marseille)

"We need to launch this digital transformation of the French League, as LaLiga has done, and I think that French football must invest in an international OTT platform, like the NFL League Pass, and sometimes you have to be able to sacrifice short-term revenues to develop more important ones in the future," stated Jacques-Henri Eyraud, president of Olympique de Marseille (Ligue 1 Conforama), during the third edition of the French Professional Football Convention in Cannes (FRA) on 22/05/2018.

"International TV rights, the challenge for French professional football" was the theme of one of the four discussion panels of this convention, which brings together the leaders of French professional clubs, but also the bodies and families of football (players, managers, etc) to the Grand Hotel Martinez on 22 and 23/05/2018.

"If there is one area in which Ligue 1 is lagging behind its main competitors, it is in terms of international TV rights. We are not worth four times less than the Italian or German championships, nor eight times less than the Spanish championship," said Bernard…