Christophe Dugarry is a pure Bordeaux native. A native of Lormont, a suburban town near the Aquitaine capital, “Duga” joined the Girondins de Bordeaux training center at the age of 16 and quickly became the young prodigy of the place, under the orders of Aimé Jacquet, Raymond Goethals, Gérard Gili, Gernot Rohr and Rolland Courbis. He formed the team’s magic triangle with Bixente Lizarazu and Zinédine Zidane before being selected by Jacquet for the 1998 World Cup.
The fiery 98 world champion striker-Euro 2000 winner, who went on to play for AC Milan, Barça, OM, Bordeaux again, Birmingham City and Qatar SC, was lucky enough to grow up with an older brother, David, who is only 13 months older.
This man named David Dugarry was the surprise guest on Jérôme Rothen’s show on RMC, in which his protégé Christophe is obviously one of the star columnists.
David Dugarry: “the sports teachers made us skip school hours”
“We were at Sainte-Marie de la Bastide at school together, and during recess, there was always a soccer ball, and we were lucky enough to have a handball field, where we played matches. Often, we found ourselves against each other. Each time, as long as he did not win, the match should not be stopped. We couldn’t stop the match until he won. Often, when he lost it was the winning goal, and he changed the rules, and when he won we could stop the match. Very often this cost us some detentions. We were often late for class. Even when the buzzer sounded, he didn’t want to leave the game, so we got stuck a lot. The advantage we had was that we had sports teachers, as we played at the UNSS, so we were stuck on Wednesday afternoons… As we had matches at that time, the sports teachers made us skip school hours… But we still had some, we got yelled at a few times by our parents…”says the eldest Dugarry, as reported by the site Girondins4Ever.
Christophe Dugarry remembers with great emotion these crazy football moments at school, near the center of Bordeaux. The future world champion was the biggest football fan in his class. He made it his profession.
