Jean Tigana pays a magnificent tribute to Bernard Lacombe, which French football has been crying since June 17. Very sick for many months, the former goalscorer of OL and the Girondins de Bordeaux, who became manager of the Grand Lyon of Jean-Michel Aulas, died at the age of 72. “Jano” is very well placed to evoke the personality of Bernard Lacombe since he evolved with him in the French team to the coronation of the Michel Platini generation at Euro 1984, but also in the Girondins de Bordeaux from 1981 to 1987!
The two players rubbed shoulders for the first time in May 1980 in a friendly match of the Blues in Russia, before the arrival of Jean Tigana in Bordeaux the year after. Marius Trésor, Gernot Rohr, Jean Fernandez, René Girard and Alain Giresse also played at the Aquitaine club. Aimé Jacquet was then the coach. The FCGB was then crowned champion of France in 1984, 1985 and 1987, by winning the Coupe de France in 1986 and 1987!
“He had anecdotes on everyone yes (laughs). With his warrior's face, he had a lot of humor. But after the matches. Before the match, during the match, there was no humor. But after the matches, it was very funny (laughs) “testifies Jean Tigana about Bernard Lacombe on Europe 1, as reported by the site girondins4ever.com.
Lacombe calls on Tigana
Before continuing on the state of mind of players of the time:
“We were only normal people. We liked to play football, laugh, and be super professional … super professional, demanding “.
Promoted to OL sports director by Jean-Michel Aulas in 1988, Bernard Lacombe then gave his friend Jean Tigana his very first experience on a bench, from 1993 to 1995. “To get a player progress – and there he taught me a lot when I trained Olympique Lyonnais – he took time with people to try to get the maximum of their potential. And that is only in the dialogue, when I was not too much in there. I am still not too much, in the dialogue, but he was all the time in the dialogue, to always try to seek where the problem was to develop and draw the maximum of the potential of the player ”testifies Tigana.
