Laure Boulleau, the rant of Hervé Mathoux

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By: Manu Tournoux

After having spent the entire football career on the Paris Saint-Germain side, Laure Boulleau, who also knew the French team (65 selections), retired in 2018. In the process, she began a new adventure as a consultant on Canal+.

Having become over the years an essential figure in the broadcasts on the round ball of the encrypted chain, Laure Boulleau must deal with many detractors. Regularly targeted on social networks, the ex-left lateral can count on the support of Hervé Mathoux.

“” Laure is sparkling, solar, she has taken a place really apart in the TV and football landscape in France, entrusted the presenter of the Canal Football Club to The team. You can tease it, it reacts. On a set, for a host, it's nice because there is a respondent, and always with a smile. But she takes a lot of blows too. People still have trouble seeing a woman occupying a central position to give her opinion on football. »»

Hervé Mathoux: “Laure Boulleau takes a lot of blows”

In addition, Hervé Mathoux was delighted with the arrival last summer of Bertrand Latour. “” Recruited last summer, he quickly found his place in all our programs, he said. He is a journalist with a network, info, a lot of work upstream and he is also a good debateur. He shows that we can assume strong positions, but always argued. He keeps an awakening a tray, brings contradiction, but with a little smile that reminds us that we should not take too seriously. »»

Then to evoke the case Samir Nasri: ” I am happy that his role as a consultant allowed him to access a form of positive popularity that his personality deserved. A real football lover, he has an immense knowledge of it. He watches fifteen matches per weekend. You tell him about the right side of the Chakhtior Donetsk, he knows him. And most of the time, he knows someone who played with him and who was able to tell him about it. He brings a lot. »»

And finally David Ginola: ” We are almost the same age (Mathoux was born in 1966, Ginola in 1967). The youngest may not realize his aura. In Newcastle last year, we saw the myth that it was. We also needed someone embodying PSG next to Samir, more OM, who has a cold, analytical look but not imbued with an obvious love for Paris. It is also a somewhat pure vision of football, that of the 90s, with simple values, respect for the jersey, the collective … »»