Trained at the club and remaining for almost a decade in the Parisian professional ranks, Clément Chantôme explained that he came to blows with Paul Le Guen’s assistant.
He is the symbol of another era. Arriving at PSG at the age of 12, Clément Chantôme left the capital club for good fifteen years later, pushed out by the Qatari leaders. The native of Yonne, double French champion with the Rouge et Bleu (2013 and 2014), winner of the Coupe de France (2010) and the Coupe de la Ligue (2008), has seen the club transform. However, the former Bordeaux player also experienced difficult times before the arrival of QSI and orders and not only because of the results.
Questioned at the Colinterview microphone, the man who enjoyed the honors of the France team during a defeat against Japan in a friendly in October 2012 even confided having fought with one of Paul Le Guen’s assistants, who remained two years at the head of PSG (2007-2009). “I had a disagreement with Le Guen’s deputy. I grabbed him by the neck. It was quick. For what ? It doesn’t take much to unpin. I think it was for mistakes that he didn’t whistle at me in training, he purposely didn’t whistle at me. At one point I went to catch him”he confided.
Thanks to the president at the time, this bloodshed will remain without consequences for the young midfielder. “ These are frustrations. When you’re not playing, you see everything black. Was I sanctioned? Not even. At the time, the president was Charles Villeneuve and he came to see me the next day with a big smile and told me that it didn’t matter if I got angry, he explained. I was the president’s pet, but he wasn’t the one who made the team. »
