Finalist of the 2006 World Cup with the French team, of which he wore the jersey 49 times, septuple champion of France with Olympique Lyonnais, winner of the French Cup and the League Cup … Sidney Govou can boast of having had an exemplary career. His lifestyle was a little less, however.
Indeed, his journey was marked out with episodes related to the absorption of alcoholic drink. In December 2008, while he saw his last months on the banks of the Rhône, the attacker was arrested in a state of drunkenness behind the wheel of his car. According to THE Progresshis blood alcohol test reveals a rate of 2.6 grams per liter of blood. “From my fault, I may have conveyed a bad image of the club”he apologizes after being immediately withdrawn his driver's license.
About a year later, the native of Puy-en-Velay got drunk at the Palais des Sports de Gerland, in particular in the company of Sylvain Wiltord and Florent Laville, on the eve of the derby against AS Saint-Etienne. The Rhone coach of the time, Claude Puel, decided to remove the captain's armband on the spot.
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Starting in Panathinaikos in 2010, it is not in Greece that the one we call “whiskey-coca” will change its “good” habits. The international tricolor is seen into drunkenness in a disco in Athens several times. Club leaders ordered him to pay a fine of 50,000 euros.
“Do you think I drink alcohol alone at home as soon as I have a minute?” No ! I am as I am: excessive from time to time, but always present in the field ”he gets angry in the columns of
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So footballin 2015, after hanging up the crampons.
