In an excellent documentary, broadcast this week and entitled Lostthe L'Equipe chain is interested in these former sportsmen bruised by the high level. Several ex-football players, including Éric Di Meco, Benoît Trémoulinas and Bruno Rodriguez, thus testify to the sequelae left by their careers. “The footballer is considered to be meat”notably loose the latter, passed by PSG and today amputated the right leg.
It was to relieve his pains, after too many cortisone infiltrations, that the former Parisian had to make this radical decision. Bixente Lizarazu, too, could have kept traces of her years spent on the ground. But unlike some others, said no. Victim of a rupture of the internal cross ligament of a knee with the Blues, against Ukraine in 1999, “Liza” resisted the pressure of its club of the time, Bayern Munich.
Bixente Lizarazu opposed Bayern
While the Bavarian leaders pushed him not to have an operation to finish the season, the former Tricolor left lapteral stood up to them, insisting to pass on the billiards. A difficult decision because she deprived him that year from the final of the Champions League, lost by the Germans against Manchester United (1-2). “It was very painful to see this final from the stands. I said to myself: P*tain, I miss a final of the Champions League ”, he entrusted to
The team.
“But at the same time, I thought of all these years of sport I had to live, Added the former defender of the Girondins of Bordeaux, winner of the C1 two years later, against FC Valence (1-1, 5 Tab 4). And it comforted me in the idea that I will never hurry again, and that I will never give in to external or interior pressure. »» A paid choice since now 55 years old, the 1998 world champion is in a dazzling form.
