Two days after his unavoidable captain Michel Platini, Jean Tigana also celebrated his 70th birthday on June 23. We are talking about a real legend of the French team. The native of Bamako was the untenable defensive midfielder of the magic square of the Blues of the 80s, semi-finalists of the 1982 and 1986 World Cups and winners of Euro 1984 at the Parc des Princes against Spain. “Jeannot” also won 2nd place at the 1984 gold balloon behind the number 10 star “Platoche”.
Jean Tigana is a Provençal. Arrived at the age of three in France, he grew up in Marseille and was trained at the ASPTT before starting in pros in Toulon, in 1975. If he especially made the heyday of Bordeaux, being triple champion of France (1984, 1985 and 1987), the midfielder then carried the colors of OM. He won two other D1 titles with the Phocaeans (1990 and 1991) and lost the final of the 1991 Champion Club Cup against the Red Star in Belgrade.
The Tigana family settled in Cassis, eastern Marseille, despite a career as a coach who took him to the four corners of Europe and the world (OL, AS Monaco, Fulham, Besikas, Bordeaux and Shanghai Shenhua). A great lover of wines with his longtime Bordeaux friends, he bought a property of 14 hectares of vines on the heights of Cassis to launch the Dona Tigana in 1998.
Tigana leaves her daughter in charge
His daughter Canelle is now in charge of the vineyard, as we learn in a report of Figaro Wine. “Throughout my childhood, I followed my father around the world. We lived in China, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Bordeaux… The rallying point between two destinations has always been black. I knew nothing about the vine. I came from the world of classical music. But, little by little, it caught me “she says.
Canelle Tigana always develops Dona Tigana. She organizes events at the Domaine and imagine distributing her sweet drinks in Nice, Saint-Tropez or even Paris. His father will remain in the field, he saw a particularly peaceful retirement. “Here, we live like the black feet. We are a real clan “testifies the daughter of the former French international (52 matches, a goal). Jean Tigana welcomed the journalist of Figaro But without wanting to express themselves.
