A good number of players from the French team, world champions in 1998, met on Monday evening for one of its traditional dinners. Patrick Vieira was absent, despite a promise.
At least once a year, the heroes of 1998 make sure to get together. World champions under the leadership of Aimé Jacquet, Zinedine Zidane, Bixente Lizarazu and other Christian Karembeu enjoy an evening together around a good dinner. The opportunity for everyone to maintain the strong bonds that were forged between them during their years together in the French team. Monday evening, Robert Pires and his comrades were out. But not everyone was there. Once again, Patrick Vieira was missing, for example.
And yet, the current coach of the Racing Club de Strasbourg had promised that he would join his former teammates with whom he had lifted the 98 World Cup trophy, one evening in July, at the Stade de France. It was also to Laurent Blanc, who was present on Monday evening, that Vieira made his promise. The scene was also filmed on August 13 during a match between Strasbourg and Lyon. “ Now that you are in France, you can come. “, said Blanc, to which Vieira replied: “ But I always come. » White’s raise: “ You never come. With Titi (Henry) you never come. » And Vieira concludes: “ I promise, I’ll come.“
😍 The hug between the two coaches and 98 champions Laurent Blanc and Patrick Vieira! #RCSAOL pic.twitter.com/Lyrrtnb3Ji
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Beautiful people
But obviously, it wasn’t for this time. Among those absent, the former French midfielder was not the only one since Didier Deschamps and Thierry Henry were not there either. On the other hand, Emmanuel Petit, Alain Boghossian, Frank Leboeuf, Christophe Dugarry, Zinedine Zidane, Lionel Charbonnier, Christian Karembeu, Bixente Lizarazu, Vincent Candela, Bernard Lama and Bernard Diomède were there.
There they are, the old ones!!! It holds…it holds!!! ☺️ pic.twitter.com/DmJkAFLUlk
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But it wasn’t just players there since several members of the French staff at the time had also made the trip. Aimé Jacquet for example, but also the former doctor of the Blues, Jean-Marcel Ferret, without forgetting the goalkeeper coach, Philippe Bergeroo. Enough to spend a wonderful evening full of memories.
