FC Nantes' yellow and green colors originally come from a jockey. The club was founded during World War II (1943) by a group of businessmen, one of whom was the builder Jean Le Guillou. He also owned a stable of racehorses, and the leading horse was Ali Pacha, who had a reputation for being virtually unbeatable in the horse racing world and was ridden by a jockey with a yellow-green helmet. It was these successful colors that Jean Le Guillou brought with him to his newly founded football team when he became FC Nantes' first club president, a title he would only hold for a short time before he was arrested for collaborating with the Nazis after the war and later fled to Switzerland.
FC Nantes' yellow and green colors originally come from a jockey. The club was founded during World War II (1943) by a group of businessmen, one of whom was the builder Jean Le Guillou. He also owned a stable of racehorses, and the leading horse was Ali Pacha, who had a reputation for being virtually unbeatable in the horse racing world and was ridden by a jockey with a yellow-green helmet. It was these successful colors that Jean Le Guillou brought with him to his newly founded football team when he became FC Nantes' first club president, a title he would only hold for a short time before he was arrested for collaborating with the Nazis after the war and later fled to Switzerland.