Member of the France team at the time of the fiasco in Knysna in 2010, Sidney Govou confided in the atmosphere within the group. And contrary to what we thought, Yoann Gourcuff is not the player who suffered the most.
If the France team is going through a rather glorious period, its supporters will never forget certain much more negative episodes. Starting with the famous strike of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The men of Raymond Domenech had certainly displayed their solidarity in the eyes of the whole world. But within the group, Sidney Govou ensures that the collective was not the main quality of the Blues.
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” The fiascos, you can explain them with a sentence: no group spiritexplained the former Lyonnais to the magazine So Foot. However, in South Africa, everyone likes each other, huh! We will explain to you that Gourcuff was the head of the Turk, but it is not true. We just have a hyper individualistic group. You only have big players and the fault of the coach is not having succeeded in generating a collective. In this group, everyone was talking, rightly so, but no one was listening. »
Among the large unaltruistic characters, Franck Ribéry is singled out. ” Franck did not want to play on the right while Malouda was very efficient on the leftrecalled Sidney Govou. Maloud’ doesn’t play the first match against Uruguay, then he comes back against Mexico and it’s Yo (Gourcuff) who comes out… Nobody made Franck understand that for the balance of the team he had to play on the right, although he might perform less than at Bayern. “Often presented as the victim of the group, and in particular of Franck Ribéry, Yoann Gourcuff is however not the one who has suffered the most.
“It was the little house on the prairie”
“ Others have suffered more than me, like Toulalan, a friend, who no longer talks about footballtold the consultant about his ex-teammate from Lyon. He’s a real nice guy, a “naive”, in the sense that he always hoped that we were all nice, when not. Once you understand that, you live it very well. But Toul’, he was a bit in his dream, at home, with his children. It was the little house on the prairie, he is going to play football, everything is going well… Except that it is a world of sharks, in which you have no friends. Since then, the state of mind has fortunately changed under the orders of Didier Deschamps.
