Alain Giresse is formal. In sixteen years of football career in Bordeaux, he certainly experienced the struggle to maintain, even exhumes a tense trip to Lyon in 1976, but he “has never been last after thirty days”. Donkey cap of Ligue 1, the Girondins welcome FC Metz, penultimate in the championship, Sunday April 10, at 1 p.m. The playmaker in 592 games with the jersey on the scapular gives his advice, direct and pragmatic. “In this kind of situation, you don’t have to be beautiful but efficient”warns this incarnation, however, of the beautiful French game.
In Bordeaux, the situation is serious. Enough to see, on Friday, the mayor, Pierre Hurmic, invite himself into the locker room of the Girondins, two days before this shock of the misclassified for training in match condition, at Matmut Atlantique. In front of the players, the environmentalist councilor draws the comparison with his surprise election, in June 2020, against the polls and against seventy-three years of right-wing reign, when he towed himself until the last minute instead of the Victoire.
Despite a moderate passion for football, Mr. Hurmic ensured his presence at the stadium on this day of the first round of the presidential election. “I know that, for many Bordeaux people, it matters, so it must matter for me too”, he said. After all, the Girondins and their six titles of champions of France also constitute the “city heritage” and the mayor appeals to the pride and combativeness of a heterogeneous workforce, made up of around fifteen nationalities, with its share of loaned players.
At 36, Jimmy Briand does not plan to discover Ligue 2 right away. “We are aware of the importance of this matchassures the attacker. We have enough experienced players and we are very close. In a maintenance operation, everyone has to be. » Some still doubt it and cite the improbable defeat (0-2) at eleven against nine Montpellierans for almost an hour on March 20.
Worse, that day, goalkeeper Benoît Costil ended half-time head to head with Ultramarines spokesman Florian Brunet, who accused him and defender Laurent Koscielny of racism. “We were simply whistleblowers, people came to see us and told us that they had witnessed scandalous comments from another time”advance to World the media figure of the club’s main group of supporters. Benoît Costil denies the facts and announced on his social networks that he wanted to launch “the appropriate legal proceedings, in order to shed full light on this case and the motives of their perpetrators”.
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