Champion of France in 1996 with Lionel Charbonnier, Laurent Blanc, Sabri Lamouchi, Bernard Diomède or Stéphane Guivarc'h, and winner of four French Cups with in particular the Philippe Mexès-Djibril Cissé generation in 2003, Guy Roux marked the history of hexagonal football. He is the legendary coach of AJ Auxerre, a small Burgundian club which he took over in 1961 in the fourth division to impose it over the decades as a reference in the elite, in particular by forming many talented players.
Franco-Spanish Miguel Pineda (officially named Michel), interviewed Friday by ReaderPassion comes back with his beginnings in the Icaunais club, alongside Eric Cantona, who is now a friend. “He (Eric) had a lot of character. I remember when we went to train with the first team. Guy Roux, the legendary! Guy Roux, told us: 'Eric, Michel, tomorrow you will train with the big ones'. And we were super happy. We were 17 years old, he let us work with the older ones. The veterans were manhandling us and we did not let ourselves be done. And Roux punished us! 'Today at 3am, here!' He spent an hour to paint an hour, he gave us two brushes and a jar of paint and made us paint the ground … ' Funny anecdote.
Guy Roux and Eric Cantona in 1982.
Launched at the age of 18 in French D1 in March 1983, by a 44 -year -old Guy Roux, Miguel Pineda also accompanied the boss on other fields in order to supervise players. “He was the best, a brilliant coach. On Sunday afternoon, he came to get me at home and said to me: 'Come on, we're going to watch a match'. And we were going to watch a shitty match because he had heard of a player. I was trying to guess who was the player. Do you remember Boli? I was there when he signed in Auxerre. He came to try with his brother and the coach asked: 'And your brother also plays football? Let him dress and come on the field '. The club signed them both. They played in D1! It's great “.
Guy Roux catches Basile Boli!
Pineda thus recounts an anecdote on “Basilou” Boli, caught up in his mentor Guy Roux. The Icaunnais club coach used to note the kilometric counter of the vehicles of certain players, especially singles. One day he resumed Boli on the fly by asking him why the counter displayed 40 kilometers more while the defender's home was next to the training center. “There were two nightclubs in the city and, on Saturday evening, after the match, we went there. We had an agreement with the DJ: when he (Guy Roux) arrived, he changed music to warn us! »»says Miguel Pineda.
A native of the Loiret of Spanish parents, the striker was trained at AJ Auxerre and made his professional debut there, alongside Joël Bats, Basile Boli, Dominique Cuperly, Jean-Marc Ferreri or Patrice Garande, but by evolving on the reserve team. It was by joining the Espanyol that he launched his career (9 goals in the 1985-1986 season). He was an international Spanish hope but never confirmed at the very high level, at Racing Santander or back in France at the Sporting Club in Toulon (18 goals in 102 matches, alongside Jacques Songo'o, Antoine Kombouaré, Franck Passi or Frédéric Meyrieu).
