If Didier Deschamps is obviously busy preparing the semi-final of the French Nations of the French team against Spain on Thursday, his lifelong friend Marcel Desailly is back in Beaujoire this Tuesday evening. “The Rock” participates in the Legends match of FC Nantes, between an association of old Grandes Glories des Canaris and the Variety Club de France led by Robert Pirès, Alain Giresse or Teddy Riner. The event is to be followed on the channel L'Equipe (kick -off 8 p.m.).
Desailly had been announced for a few weeks by his training club at the rendezvous of this event in favor of Secours Populaire. The central defender of France 98, 178 matches with the FCNA from 1986 to 1992, will start the meeting. It will be part of the starting eleven of the legends of FC Nantes.
The 56 -year -old retiree, now a consultant for BeIN Sports, has already started during the 125 -year -old OM celebrations match last month, being the first player to get out of the field after a quarter of an hour of play in the Marseilles.
Virgin prize list for Desailly
Marcel Desailly is a bit of the intruder of the Eleven Nantes since he accompanies the triple champion of France Maxime Bossis (1977, 1980 and 1983), the 1995 Champions Dominique Casagrande, Eddy Capron, Christian Karembeu, Claude Makelele and Patrice Loko, as well as those of 2001 Sylvain Armand, Éric Carrière, Frédéric Da Rocha and Marama Vahirua. Desailly, he won any title with FC Nantes Atlantique (it was the name of the club at the time).
Yves Deroff, Michel Der Zakarian, Nicolas Gillet, Nicolas Laspalles, Christophe Pignol, Sébastien Piocelle, Olivier Quint, Antoine Sibierski, Claudio Keserü or Fabrice Pancrate are part of the group. The “FC Nantes Legends” will be led by the illustrious Coco Suaudeau, champion of France in 1965 and 1966 as a player and great craftsman, as a genius trail, coronations in 1983 and 1995. His former deputy Georges EO will second it again.
