He is one of the most listened to and respected by French football. World champion 98, legend of the Blues and Bayern Munich, Bixente Lizarazu is also an influential consultant and columnist, especially for the daily The teamwhere he delivers his uncompromising analyzes. However, this long -standing collaboration does not prevent the former side from sometimes closing the door, even to his own colleagues. Recently requested by the newspaper to return to a precise and painful episode of his playing career, “Liza” opposed an end of non-reception. A net and surprising refusal which speaks volumes about the scar left by this chapter of his life.
The taboo subject: its missed passage to Olympique de Marseille
This subject that Bixente Lizarazu categorically refuses to tackle is his only and unhappy season at Olympique de Marseille in 2004-2005. While
The team Prepared a file on the returns of French world champions in France, journalists naturally wanted to collect Lizarazu's testimony on this experience, which had ended in a bitter failure. But the former player “Did not wish to come back to this episode”, cutting short any discussion. An injury visibly still raw, almost twenty years after the facts.
It must be said that this passage to OM remains one of the greatest black dots of its career. Arrived in 2004 as a star, surrounded by his titles with Bayern Munich, his return to France was to be triumphant. But the dream quickly turned into a nightmare. In conflict with the coach of the time, Philippe Troussier, who gradually loses confidence in himself, Lizarazu finds himself on the bench, then completely dismissed from the team. Unable to endure this situation, he will break his contract after only six months to return to Bavaria, leaving the image of a completely missed comeback.
Lizarazu and OM: memory too heavy to talk about it?
An injury still lively at Lizarazu
If the pain of such failure is understandable, this refusal to express themselves can question on the part of a consultant who never hesitates to ask transparency from current players and coaches. By “sending walking” and journalists from his own media on a subject that concerns him personally, Lizarazu shows a certain feverishness. An attitude deemed “not very friendly” by some, who see it as a franchise with variable geometry: intractable with others, but silent on its own failures.
Ultimately, this “no” of Bixente Lizarazu at
The team Above all, reveals that an injury has never really closed. His passage to OM remains a memory too painful to be mentioned publicly, even with hindsight of the years. This testifies to the violence and the requirement of a club like Marseille, capable of grinding even the greatest champions when things go wrong. The door of this memory therefore remains closed in double turn by one of the greatest left rear in the history of French football.
