Very often smiling when she is on air, as a consultant for Canal+, Laure Boulleau was already much more nervous when she was a player.
Before being a consultant on Canal+, where she delivers her analyzes alongside Hervé Mathoux, Laure Boulleau had a great career. Former international left back, with 65 selections for the French team under her belt, the native of Clermont played thirteen years at PSG, from 2005 to 2018, where she won the Coupe de France twice (2010 and 2018) and reached the final of the Champions League (2015), often coming up against OL Women in the championship.
A career that has made her today an influential personality in the world of football and the media, which is why the host Guillaume Pley invited her on his show Legend, broadcast on YouTube. The opportunity for the ex-Parisian to deliver several anecdotes, such as the time she saw President Emmanuel Macron shirtless or when she played it like Zinedine Zidane with Marco Materazzi, by headbutting an opponent .
Laure Boulleau: “I made a Zizou”
“One day I did something crazy. I threw a headbutt. I made a Zizou, a ZZ”, she remembers. A gesture that should have earned him a “crimson red” And “six months suspension”, in his own words. But Laure Boulleau was not excluded. “The girl, all the way: ‘It plays in the French team’… A gratuitous nastiness, she says. I didn’t say anything at first and then she tripped you up, etc..” Enough to make her unpin.
“I make a pass, it arrives three cars late, and then I find myself on the ground. There, I saw red », continues the one which is followed by 840,000 subscribers on Instagram. Fortunately for her, the referee saw nothing: ” I was lucky. » Zinedine Zidane had less. During the 2006 World Cup final, Horacio Elizondo did not spare the French number 10 in overtime and Italy ended up defeating the Blues on penalties.
