The French team will celebrate a sad anniversary next year. On July 9, 2026 will indeed mark the twenty years of the 2006 World Cup final, lost by the Blues against Italy with penalties (1-1, 5-3 TAB). A match that will remain like the last of Zinedine Zidane's career, who left on a whim addressed to Marco Materazzi and a red card.
This terrible outcome, Fabien Barthez has not forgotten or digested it. Despite all the titles he was able to win, in a club as in the selection, this failure regularly dates back to the surface.
“2006 is something, I think about it …, he confides in the podcast The voice of the guards. As much 1998, 2000 and 1993 no, but 2006 it is certain that I will think two or three times a month. »»
Fabien Barthez still traumatized
Winner of the Champions League with Olympique de Marseille in 1993, as well as the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000 with the Blues, the former international porter, now 54, still can't turn the page.
“I don't like to lose, what. And then these are different contexts and situations ”,
he explains.
“What annoys me and irritates me the most -I still have this frustration, it passes, it does not last all day, but you have it, what -it is when Zizou is expelled and that we are not able to winhe continues. Me, my wish was to remove the captain's armband that I had recovered, to give it to him and say to him: 'Go ahead. That's what hurts me. »»
