Twenty years later, the book The Night of the Cursedpublished by Karim Nedjari by Fayard editions, returns to the constitution of the group of 22 of Aimé Jacquet for the World Cup 98. And therefore the sidelining of six players who had started the rally two weeks earlier with an internship in Tignes. Lionel Letizi, Martin Djetou, Pierre Laigle, Sabri Lamouchi, Ibrahim Ba and Nicolas Anelka lacked nothing to go into legend by being sacred world champions.
In his last episode, Golazothe Podcast de Sports.fr returns to these six banned day. On Friday, May 22, 1998, after a last tense training and a less happy dinner than usual, the coach of the Blues summoned the six unhappy people in his room, at 9:30 p.m. Around the Ping Pong table, Martin Djetou comforts an Emmanuel Petit who thinks of being part of the cart. While the central defender of AS Monaco, for his part, received a word of encouragement from Aimé Jacquet at the start of the preparation.
It was Pierre Laigle who was most traumatized by the exclusion decided by Aimé Jacquet. Tears flow on his face at the end of the fateful meeting. The left-hander trained at the RC Lens won at the Sampdoria, in the Grande Serie A, under the orders of Sven-Goran Eriksen, alongside Sinisa Mihajlovic, Roberto Mancini, Juan Sebastian Veron or Vincenzo Montella. He played six games with the Blues in 1997, including four as a holder!
Vincent Candela rather than Pierre Laigle
Except that Pierre Laigle had taken advantage of the absences on injury of Bixente Lizarazu. “Liza” in good shape with Bayern a few months before the World Cup, Laigle found himself in competition with Vincent Candela. The latter had not only for him to be a right -handed lateral having imposed on the Roma as a left piston, he was also part of the “atmosphere” of the France group. Laigle lived very badly his eviction and then the epic of the Blues. His parents were also very affected, as said The Night of the Cursed.
Laigle then knew relegation to the SAMP, which allowed him to sign at OL in 1999. He was essential in the midfield during the League Cup won against AS Monaco in 2001 (2-1, AP) then in the first title of French Gones champion in 2002 acquired at the last day. He scored the goal of 3-1 against his Lensois training club in a delirious gerland. Pierre Laigle has never been recalled in tricolor selection and ended his career in Montpellier and Saint-Priest. Today installed in a village in the Rhône, it sells building land.
