Hervé Renard’s speech before France-Brazil continues to make people react. After the clear opinion of the former tricolor Melissa Plaza, it was Didier Roustan who tackled the coach of the Blue.
“It’s a speech in which the guy spends his time screaming, the tone is so loud that the ear saturates and it makes the speech more hollow than it already is… » This is how the former French international, Melissa Plaza, reacted in SoFoot to the video of Hervé Renard’s speech to the players of the French football team before facing Brazil in the group stage of the 2023 World Cup (2-1). In the wake of this sharp reaction, a second equally scathing one intervened.
It was Didier Roustan who did not go with dead hands when broaching the subject on the channel The Team. If he did not necessarily criticize the form, the journalist rather targeted the substance. ” I would not go as far as Madame Plaza, ‘virilist’, all that, I find that it was a little hard. On the other hand, on the tenor of the speech, I found it very hollow. Me, without messing around, I play football, a coach who tells me that, I sleep. As it was, I sleep. I say ‘well, stop your thing and now here we go. We know, we know.’ »
“If it’s Al Pacino”
And the observer to continue. ” Afterwards, if that’s his way of being… But from there to falling on the ground listening to that… But afterwards, we only heard two minutes of the thing, I don’t have to judge. But that’s my feeling, on the basis of the speech itself. After that, let it suck a little, well… When concluding, Didier Roustan wanted to add something: “ I am against filming what happens in the locker room. What happens in the locker room should stay in the locker room.”
For him, the reactions of Internet users on social networks were astonishing. ” I was overwhelmed by the admiring streak of everyone on Twitter. And to parody a Hollywood movie about American football. ” If it’s Al Pacino in ‘L’enfer du dimanche’, who talks to you about centimeters, who takes Eugénie Le Sommer and tells her ‘Football is a matter of centimeters. And when you make that fucking inch…’so there yes, there I go.”
