Alain Giresse is a pure Girondin. Before becoming the first symbol of the Girondins de Bordeaux, with which he evolved for no less than 16 years, by making the largest club of the 80s in France, the former midfielder was born and grew up in Langoiran and remains very attached to his hometown.
Alain Giresse had been made there a citizen of honor and received the city medal at the start of the year. The city stadium of 2,210 inhabitants also bear its name. But his career ended, it was in Balma, near Toulouse, that “Gigi” settled. “I am rooted there. Balma is the youth of children, my foot on the ground ”, He entrusted to Ouest-France last summer.
And Alain Giresse is all the more linked to Balma since he participated in the launch of the Cup chase, a competition organized for the benefit of UNICEF which brings together more than 500 young players. This year, he even brought his friends from the Varieties Club de France to play a gala match against a local selection. Marius Treor, Fabien Barthez, Sidney Govou, Souleymane Diawara, Richard Gasquet, Dominique Rocheteau, Claude Puel or Jean-François Domergue had responded.
Alain Giresse, “a man of heart”
“The varieties plays 40 games a year. When a member of the club asks that we play a match, we do it and we invest ourselves. You have large stars, middle stars, small stars and unknown people in the locker room. It is an incredible human adventure! »»justified Jacques Vendroux, general manager of the variérés for 55 years.
“This allows us to communicate the values ​​of sport through what UNICEF defends: the right to leisure for children. It is also a way of demonstrating that football can accommodate all young people, without elitism ”for his part said the local hero, who should soon be honored by his commune.
“Alain Giresse is a man of heart, who has values ​​and convictions. I will propose to the municipal council that the field of honor of the stadium bears his name ”indeed announced at La Dépêche Vincent Terrail-Novès, the mayor of the High-Garron commune.
