Eric Carrière has had an atypical career. Consequence of an arrival in the world of professionals late. Trained in Auch, the creative midfielder made his classes in Muret, resident of D3, before joining the FC Nantes reserve team. And it will take him for another eighteen months to be launched among professionals, the native of Foix playing his first Ligue 1 match to almost 24 years.
At the end of his career, the one who accumulated four titles of champion of France with Nantes (2001) and OL (2002, 2003, 2004), two French cups (1999, 2000) and ten selections in the French team, did not wait until before starting his retraining. Only two months after his last match with Dijon, he indeed officiates as a consultant at the microphone of Canal+.
As on the grounds, his ascent was dazzling, the former tricolor international becoming a columnist for the CFC or officiating on the Champions League matches alongside Grégoire Margotton or Stéphane Guy. But in the spring of 2022, Eric Carrière decided to say stop, no longer finding himself in the values of football. “I made the decision to stop at the end of the season my activity as a consultant to devote myself to the other job that since 2010 has been fascinating that of entrepreneur for career cellars”, he wrote on Twitter.
Eric Carrière tired by football
He had later explained the evolution of manners in football. “There is a problem. All the people I know in football are hard. I note that there are few happy people when they are passionate professions where you earn a good life. This social pressure, this need for recognition, the pressure of the result, is terrible with codes unlike what should happen. All the bad attitudes that we let pass, which are authorized, come to pollute this team spirit. Individualism is super contagious ”he said, adding to take more pleasure with his business.
And, two years after the announcement of this departure, Caves Carrière is on the rise. His company launched the Riotte this winter, a brasserie in Paris, in the Madeleine district, whose map was entrusted to the starred chief Yohann Chapuis. “It was Loïc Chalier who initiated this project which brings together Caves Carrière and Yohann Chapuis in the investment”had revealed Eric Carrière. Like the former player, Loïc Chalier had moved away from football after having worked in particular as a recruiter for Dijon FCO to embark on the pleasures of the mouth.
Eric Carrière feasts
After having confined himself to wine by developing storage places in Burgundy in particular, Eric Carrière wanted “Invest in places of consumption that allow you to directly touch the end customer”, he told the public good. And one of the main assets of this brewery is its wine card, where more than 200 references are identified. A meager share of the Carrières Caves map with 6,000 references.
“The first feedback is pretty good. We are where we wanted to be. The riotte is settled like a place where you feel good, and where you are well received, whatever the time “welcomed Eric Carrière, adding: “It's a bit like a football match with the adrenaline that goes up, then the shot. You must then be good throughout the duration of the match. Except that in catering, it's twice a day … ”
