Ludovic Butelle changed people by joining Valence after only one season as a holder at FC Metz, his training club. The native of Reims was still only 21 years old and quickly had the privilege of facing Real Madrid of the Galactic era.
The tricolor goalkeeper thus crossed the road to Zinedine Zidane and did not hesitate to ask him for his jersey at the end of the game. An unforgettable memory. “There is this match between Valencia and Real Madrid, the era of galactics: Zidane, Figo, Ronaldo, Casillas … In the end, I ask for Zidane's jersey. I go up in the locker room, I find myself there, in the middle of the Real locker room, facing all these stars. You have to remember: a year and a half earlier, I was still in the national U17 … ”he said in the program 100% Foot Farid & Co.
“I'm going to see Zidane, we start to chat, he gives me his jersey. I thank him, I wish him a good season. And there he surprises me, he asks me how my injury is going. “So, did you recover well?” Not too many after -effects? I am shocked, Zidane who is interested in my injury! “,
He continued, explaining that he forgot the essentials.
Ludovic Butelle remained speechless
“We continue to speak a little, then I say thank you again. But before I left, he launched me: “Did you forget anything?” I say no, I don't see …, he explained.
He insists: “Are you sure?” And there he said to me, “And I can have your jersey?” I stay speechless. I take off my jersey and I give it. I was 21, and I felt like a kid. »»
Ludovic Butelle, however, only played 16 games with FC Valence during his four seasons spent in Spain. And his passages in Hercules and Real Valladolid, where he was loaned, will not have been more convincing, forcing him to return to France.
