Before the French football team was crowned world champion in 1998, it was regularly targeted by certain scathing daily analyzes The Team. Particularly in the viewfinder, Aimé Jacquet has never forgiven the newspaper, and more particularly those who wrote about him, for having mishandled him in this way. Some of the players at the time also had a hard time remaining calm.
In an extract from a program filmed after the world title won by the Blues, relayed a few days ago on its social networks by the account GenerationFrance98Emmanuel Petit was particularly angry after having visibly listened to a statement from the former directors of the newspaper.
“No kidding. This kind of person annoys me. 'Yes, they ended up world champions because, for years, we attacked them. So it allowed them to have a winning mentality.. Come on ! Go get boiled! » Alongside the third scorer in the final won against Brazil in 1998, Patrick Vieira remains silent but seems to think no less than his former Arsenal friend.
Aimé Jacquet and the Blues have never (totally) digested
Once France is on the roof of the world, the editor-in-chief of
The Team at the time, Jérôme Bureau apologized for the treatment inflicted for months on Aimé Jacquet and all of the Blues.
But the scar has never completely healed on the side of the people targeted. Aimé Jacquet also gave the best summary: “Some of the press lied shamefully. I will never forgive them. I have nothing but contempt for these people.”
