Loïc Perrin experienced his last club change like a heartbreak. At 12, the young boy has his habits and his friends at FC Saint-Charles-Vigilante. “For a year, maybe two, AS Saint-Etienne [ASSE] did the forcing to recruit me, but I didn’t go straight away, he confides to Figaro in 2017. Maybe my parents wanted to protect me… I wasn’t ready anyway. “ Not ready to make the 200 meters that separate his neighborhood club from the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium. What already hint at a rather sedentary character.
Twenty-two years later, the “Cauldron” became his garden, and the player said goodbye to him – without knowing it then – on February 5, one night of defeat against Olympique de Marseille (0-2). But the story could not end like this, after seventeen years of sweating for this green jersey in the first team.
✍️ The “Capi” will be able to play the final of the @coupedefrance against the #PSG!
– ASSEofficiel (@AS Saint-Étienne)
The Saint-Etienne captain signed a month-long amendment to his last contract to play in the final of the Coupe de France, Friday July 24, against Paris-Saint-Germain (PSG), for what appears to be his last match (l ‘interested still maintains a little suspense). Farewell from a distance for a player whose loyalty to his training club sounds like an anachronism within a profession that makes moving companies happy.
” It’s a bit of a shame to finish in front of 5,000 people and without Saint-Etienne supporters when the club has been waiting for this since 1982 ”, blows his friend and former teammate Jean-Pascal Mignot, who has nothing but compliments on his lips to evoke his “Lolo”. A local legend says that it would be easier to find oil in the Forez than critics against the local child.
“I don’t know if you are going to succeed in getting people to speak ill of him”, smiles Jonathan Brison, who came under the command of Captain Perrin between 2012 and 2016. Mignot finishes tailoring him an ideal son-in-law costume: “Dedicated player, smart guy, handsome face, good husband, nice… I don’t see many faults in him. “
On the verge of signing in Monaco
At Loïc Perrin, nothing sticks out. With him, the words are chosen, posed and always “in line with the party”. “He is very comfortable speaking, but won’t let go, notes Franck Talluto, journalist at the head of the Dessous de Verts podcast. In seventeen years of career, it is impossible to find a verbal slippage on his part. “
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