The Girondins de Bordeaux learned very sad news last month. Aaron Boupendza, passed through the club reserve to the scapular between 2016 and 2020, died after a fall on the 11th floor of a building in Zhejiang, in China. A drama that bruised the Girondins and in particular Patrick Battiston, former director of the Bordeaux club training center.
The former defender of the French team, unhappy hero of the Seville drama, was coach of the reserve when Aaron Boupendza in Bordeaux. “When I learned of the disappearance of Aaron, I felt like a punch in the stomach, a great emotion, because this boy was a talented young man”, he told Gabon Télévisions in remarks relayed by Girondins4ever.
“Yannick Stopyra warned me that he was a talented boy, and I was lucky to train him. I saw that he was really a boy who had a lot of qualities and who could bring us a lot, to the Girondins de Bordeaux ”, he continued, raising an anecdote in his first steps in Gironde.
Marius Trésor like Patrick Battiston
“He had his character, and I must say that during his first training, the first match I made with him, I tried to give him instructions on the edge of the field, and he wanted nothing to know, he did according to his character. But that was also Aaron ”, he blown.
Patrick Battiston was not the only one to pay tribute to Aaron Boupendza. It was the same with Marius Trésor, his former teammate in Bordeaux and the Blues. “I was assistant to Patrick Battiston when Aaron arrived at the Girondins in Bordeaux. I found that he was a boy petri of qualities, a pure attacker, he explained. On the other hand, the only thing I could blame him for is that when he was in the penalty area, he saw no one, and sometimes it played us with ugly towers. But this boy, when we see the number of goals he was able to score in the other clubs where he was, he was really a good person. »»
