Aimé Jacquet, the enormous tribute

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By: Manu Tournoux

Aimé Jacquet saw his status change completely in just one month during the 1998 World Cup. By leading the French team to the roof of the world after a last unforgettable victory against Brazil in the final, the The former midfielder, criticized and vilified in the months preceding the event, has indeed entered the Pantheon of French sport.

This success at the head of the Blues makes him for many the greatest French coach in history. Building on the world title won in 2018, the two finals played at Euro 2016 and the 2022 World Cup, Didier Deschamps can nevertheless legitimately challenge this status.

Given the club’s scapular situation, Aimé Jacquet is not about to see a technician take away the title of greatest coach in the history of the Girondins. With his three championship titles (1984, 1985, 1987), his two Coupe de France coronations and his European epics culminating in the C1 semi-final in 1985, the native of Sail-sous- Couzan has a special place in the legend of the Girondins.

A great connoisseur of the history of the club, journalist Julien Bée is categorical on this subject. “For me, obviously it’s Aimé Jacquet. The modern era means that Aimé Jacquet is the coach who has won the most trophies with the Girondins de Bordeaux, he confided in the podcast Les Débriefeurs. More than 420 matches with the Girondins. He was not the one who coached the most since it was André Gérard who coached the Girondins de Bordeaux the most in the 1950s and then he came back in the 1970s.”

But it’s true that Aimé Jacquet is the one through whom we went to Haillan all the same. It was he who, after seeing the place, said to Claude Bez ‘I think this is where we should go if we really want to move on to a new level’, he continued. It was he who chose that so there is a whole environment which is still today, coming from the idea of ​​Aimé Jacquet. It’s important. He completely marked the era of the Girondins de Bordeaux. »