A year ago, Éric Di Meco made a radical decision: to stop the comments of matches. A choice motivated by serious health problems. The 61 -year -old, the former defender of OM and the Blues, has actually kept significant consequences of the various injuries he suffered during his career. In 1991, there was this rupture of the anterior cross ligament of the right knee, with which he nevertheless competed in the final of the Champion Club Cup (the former Champions League) lost against the Red Star of Belgrade.
A glitch among so many others who, several decades later, therefore forced him to make a cross on the many trips imposed by the profession of consultant. “The truth is that it was my physique who forced me to stophe reveals in an interview with The team. It is an extraordinary job. But between airports, stadiums … you walk, it never stops. At the end, everything that brought me to the post of commentator was torture. »»
Éric Di Meco does not exaggerate. His pains have become so strong that he almost considers himself disabled. “Today, I am on the verge of motor disabilitysays the 1993 European champion with Marseille, now a musician. I am taking anti-inflammatory drugs if I have to spend a day when I know that I will walk a little, to calculate when I have to stand for a long time, to find a fallback solution to be able to sit down. »»
Éric Di Meco: “I am on the verge of engine handicap”
And the former French international (23 selections from 1989 to 1996), which still intervenes on RMC radio, but most often from home, to add: “It involves my whole life, in reality. I have a grandson, he is very small, but he will start to want to play football or run. If he runs too fast towards the road or towards the pool, I wonder if I will be able to catch up with him and that makes me unhappy. There, I say to myself: 'P*tain, you have become a handicapped'. »»
However, Éric Di Meco has no regrets and does not want anyone. Neither to the doctors of the clubs where he evolved, nor to the leaders who sometimes pushed to play, even when he was very reduced. “It's like that, we are not talking to you about risks; But doctors have always been very correct with meassures the native of Avignon. They too had pressure from the coach and the president, especially with ours (Bernard Tapie). The doctors, he martyred them (smiles). »»
