Among all the recent selectors of the French team, Jacques Santini is undoubtedly not the one whose supporters of the Blues remember the most. And yet, the winner of the 2003 Confederations Cup is the one who has the best statistical assessment: with 78.6% victories during his two years in mandate (2002-2004), the former OL coach is ahead of Aimé Jacquet and Roger Lemerre (64.2%), respectively champion of the 1998 and Europe 2000.
His career therefore deserves the spotlight that the program gave it RMC Mercato. In a long interview broadcast on YouTube, the former Stéphanois defensive-Milieu (72 years old) returns to his two careers as a player and coach. And in particular in his path on the Lyon bench (2000-2002), where he won the 2001 League Cup and the title of 2002 French champion, with a beautiful generation under his orders. Among those he launched is Sidney Govou.
Jacques Santini moved to tears
And the former striker has forgotten nothing about what he owes him.
“You have greatly participated in my career by offering my first professional contract when you were sports director, and by making me play my first minutes with professionals during your first yearhe recalls. I wanted to congratulate you and thank you. I do not forget my first selection in the France team. You were the coach who allowed me to access the very high level. »»
“During one of my first games the title season, I played very little at the start of the season. Not to say at allcontinues the ex-Gone. You had taken me to all the stadiums to be the sixteenth. I was a little impatient like a young person who has the fangs. »» A message that moved Jacques Santini to tears. “He deserved it”replied the old ephemeral manager of Tottenham (2004), very affected. A sequence that speaks volumes about respect between the two men.
