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Guingamp (Municipality, Côtes-d'Armor, France)

Gwengamp

Flag of Guingamp - Image by Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999

Flag of Guingamp
En Avant Guingamp

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Flag of Guingamp

According to P. Rault (Les drapeaux bretons de 1188 à nos jours) [rau98], the flag of Guingamp is horizontally divided white-blue-white-blue.

Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999

En Avant Guingamp

Supporters' flag of En Avant Guingamp - Image by Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999

According to P. Rault (op. cit.), the supporters of the En Avant Guingamp (EAG) and Stade Rennais football clubs have designed the Ruz-ha-Du (Red and Black) by colouring in red the white parts of the Gwenn-ha-Du, using the colours shared by both football clubs.

Ivan Sache, 6 January 1999

Breton-Brazilian flag - Image by Ivan Sache, 10 May 2009

On 9 May 2009 in Stade de France, En Avant Guingamp became the second football-club to win the French Cup while playing in the Second League, 50 years after Le Havre Athletic Club.
The final was very Breton since Gungamp eventually defeated Stade de Rennes (playing in First League), 2-1. This was the first time that two Breton teams play the final.
The town of Guingamp has 8,000 inhabitants but a stadium with 18,126 seats. It was said yesterday that 6,000 had gathered on the main square of the town to watch the final on a giant screen, and it is believed that the remaining 2,000 ones sat in Stade de France. EAG played once in the First League (with F. Malouda and D. Drogba as top players) and even played against Inter Milan in the UEFA Cup; Guingamp is therefore the smallest French town whose football-club played at the European level.

The players of EAG celebrated their victory on the official stand with a Breton-Brazilian flag, vertically divided half Brittany half Brazil. EAG has indeed two Brazilian players, the attacker Eduardo, who scored twice in the final, and the defender Felipe.

Ivan Sache, 10 May 2009