Before commenting on the French team's matches alongside Grégoire Margotton on TF1, Bixente Lizarazu wrote the most page in the history of the tricolor selection. World champion in 1998, the former left side chained with the coronation at Euro 2000.
The Basque then experienced an end of history with the more complicated Blues. After the elimination in the group stage of the 2002 World Cup, “Liza” ended her international career after France's defeat in the Euro quarter -finals against Greece.
Less efficient during these two tournaments, Bixente Lizarazu had been harshly criticized by Pierre Ménès, then journalist in the newspaper The teamduring the World Cup in South Korea and Japan. What the ex-Bavarois had not appreciated, who had not failed to let him know to the 62-year-old journalist.
Ménès sur Lizarazu: “He was zero, so here he had bad grades”
“” Lizarazu? When he was a player, it was fine. He wanted me to have put bad grades in Korea (during the 2002 World Cup, editor's note). But hey, at the same time, he was zero, so here he had bad grades, it's a bit of the basis of the thing … “Said Pierre Ménès on his YouTube channel.
“But otherwise, it is still a boy that I like, who has character, He nevertheless assured. I don't watch Telefoot, I have other things to do more interesting on Sunday morning. Declarations that should not clean up their relationship.
