While waiting to broadcast his very first match, Friday evening, with the shock between Stade Rennais and OM, Ligue 1+ made the lovers of the French championship wait with many content. The new LFP digital platform (available at 14.99 euros per month with the first three months at 9.99) returns to 13 “legendary players” from the French D1 and it is with happiness that we find the beginnings of Fabien Barthez and Thierry Henry.
The two world champions 98 have a very different story with their championship of origin. Trained in Toulouse, the goalkeeper won at Bernard Tapie's OM and won, at 22, the Champions League in 1993. He became a reference by then evolving at AS Monaco. The “Divine Balus” of the Blues joined Manchester United in 2000, before returning to the residents of the Vélodrome stadium from 2003 to 2006.
“Titi” Henry revealed himself to AS Monaco for three years before spinning to Juventus. It was obviously in the arsenal jersey that he became the legend of the Gunners and one of the best players in the history of the Premier League. The native of the Ulis was preformed in Clairefontaine and only reached the age of 16 on the rock. A year later, after an XXL season with those under 17, Arsène Wenger launched it with professionals in August 1994, alongside Emmanuel Petit and Youri Djorkaeff.
Thierry Henry enters the place of Mickaël Madar
But you have to wait until the end of the ASM season to see the prodigy hatch with two first names. Henry took advantage of an injury by Mickaël Madar at the start of the match to go to RC Lens on April 29, 1995 to Louis-II, to fully contribute to a resounding victory over the 6-0 score! The 17 -year -old striker offers himself a double, in particular by erasing Guillaume Warmuz (as shown in the compilation made by Ligue 1+), before a hat -trick scored by Djorkaeff, who is not yet nicknamed “The Snake” …
The story is underway. Thierry Henry becomes the unstoppable left winger of AS Monaco by Jean Tigana in the 1996-1997 season, alongside Sonny Anderson, with a title of champion of France to the key. He scored 20 goals in French D1, in 105 matches. His young friend of the reserve, a certain David Trezeguet, who came from Argentina, took advantage of Anderson's departure in 1997 to also flambé every weekend of the championship. Ligue 1+, we also want the goals of “Trezegol”!
