Youri Djorkaeff may be in front of BeIN Sports this Friday evening. Two of his former clubs compete in a friendly meeting in Gala: AS Monaco receives Inter Milan in Louis-II and “The Snake”, star player of the World Champions 98, shone on the rock from 1990 to 1995 and among the Nerazzurri from 1996 to 1999. Between these two great experiences, Djorkaeff flambé with PSG of Luis Fernandez Cup winners (1-0 victory against Vienna rapid in the final).
A few weeks after the second European Cup won by a French club, Djorkaeff, courted by Barça and Inter, opted for the Grand Calcio. “I am sad to leave. Really. I had signed two years but Inter and Barça put the big means to have me. For me, it was another dimension. Then Moratti (the president of Inter) put the means. Financially but not only. He told me about his club, the story he wanted to write and I wanted to be part of this adventure ”he explained in the columns of The team.
Jean Djorkaeff's son discovers another world, in a team where “There was Paul Ince, Pagliuca, Bergomi, Zanetti, Winter, Ganz, our scorer who was at the gates of the Nazional and Joss (Angloma) it should not be forgotten. Very very great player “. The 98 world champion immediately won as a superb player. He who democratized the term “nine and a half” at the time. He completed his first season in Serie A with 14 goals and 10 assists on the clock.
Djorkaeff: “We saw each other a little too beautiful”
Youri Djorkaeff also competes in his second European final immediately, in the UEFA Cup, against Schalke 04, after having released in particular Guingamp in the first round and AS Monaco in half! The largely favorite interpart from the double confrontation but the team then led by Roy Hodgson will not prevail. During the Gelsenkirchen final, the French number 6 is absent and the German training won 1-0 thanks to a goal from Marc Wilmots.
“On the way back, we take it on the same score thanks to a goal from Zamorano. However, we thought, playing in San Siro, that it was going to be a formality. We saw each other a little too beautiful. So we had to go to penalties. I pull and mark as a week earlier I miss one at the Atalanta Bergame. But that evening, I am the only one to succeed my shot to the goal. It was very frustrating “says the interested party. Two years later, just before the World 98 in France, he plays with the Ronaldo phenomenon and the Inter offered the UEFA Cup in front of Lazio (3-0). At the Parc des Princes.
