Christophe Dugarry returns this week in the Gazzetta dello Sport In its path in Italy, AC Milan in the 1996-1997 season. It didn't last long, but the 98 world champion appreciated his experience among the Rossoneri. Prodigy of the Girondins de Bordeaux from the Training Center, the left winger notably flambé with his big friend Zinédine Zidane during the UEFA Cup 1995-1996, with a double registered on two services of “Zizou” against the Milanese precisely, in the quarter-finals.
Dugarry had first agreed to Napoli, refusing to follow Zidane at Juventus (who wanted to lend him a year to Bologna). Before saying yes to Grand Milan! “It was a good season. There was a lot of competition with (Roberto) Baggio, (Dejan) Savicevic, (George) Weah, (Marco) Simone, but (Arrigo) Sacchi let me play (6 goals in 26 games, editor's note). I should have insisted because (Fabio) Capello, who was going to come back the following year, counted on me. Leaving Milan is the greatest regret in my career. Italian mentality and football were closer to me ”thus launches “Duga”, as reported Girondins4ever.
Christophe Dugarry and George Weah teammates at AC Milan.
French international since 1994, Christophe Dugarry was able to rub shoulders with Marcel Desailly during his season in Lombardy, but he did not agree with other AC Milan executives and in particular the essential goalkeeper Sebastiano Rossi. “I had a clash with Sebastiano Rossi just for football reasons. I was young and I wanted to assert myself. I should have avoided that, especially because everyone was tense because of the bad results ”launched “Duga” at the Gazzetta.
Christophe Dugarry: “We put two, three slaps”
As he said on the RMC Sport TV channel in 2016, Dugarry had come to his hands with the Italian goalkeeper, holder against OM during the Champions League final in 1993 and during the European coronation the year after AC Milan. “I fight, we put two, three slaps, for nothing!” »»said the world champion 98 ahead of Frank Leboeuf and Emmanuel Petit Affricés. “But I have no excuse, I have to keep my cold, if you want to make boxing, you have to go to boxing!” Sowless, you get spotted for nothing at all, you displayed for a trifle ”he added.
Only offensive lining at AC Milan, Christophe Dugarry made a catastrophic choice to join FC Barcelona, which had also recruited Rivaldo and Sonny Anderson to compensate for the departure of Ronaldo. “Duga” was a simple replacement with Louis Van Gaal and begged the Dutch technician to leave the Blaugranas and sign OM at the end of December, five months from the World Cup in France. Aquitaine only scored one goal from all season 1997-1998 (with the Phocaeans) but was still one of Aimé Jacquet's 22 Blues, one of his former FCGB coaches.
