“I don’t carry the man Zidane in my heart”. Pierre Ménès makes no secret of it, he is not a great admirer of the former number 10 of the Blues. If he does not dispute the extraordinary player that he was, the former star consultant of Canal+ did not connect with the personality of the man.
During an interview given to AudiencePierre Ménès was invited to look back on the first meeting of the new coach of the France team. The opportunity for the 63-year-old journalist to tell anecdotes about his relationship with “Zizou”.
“Since the time he has been waiting for the place… He wanted it. All I see is him happy to be there. I had the opportunity to interview him quite a few times when he was a player, and I can say that he was the worst guy. I don’t know if he had nothing to say or if he didn’t want to say anything, but it was the worst language in the history of humanity, almost worse than Paul Le Guen. He had nothing to say, it was horrible,” Ménès said.
Ménès: “Zidane funny, you have to get up early”
“At L’Equipe they sent me to Turin to interview him, because it had been a long time since he had spoken, he continued. I was told that if necessary I would stay 15 days, but I had to leave with an interview with Zidane. I arrived at training, I grabbed him, I explained it to him, and he gave me ten minutes. We were on the verge of a scam. And there, I was very struck by his first press conference, where he was happy, smiling, almost laughing. And Zidane is funny, you have to get up early. »
And to conclude: “I have never seen Zidane celebrate a goal of his like he did for Olise. The players responded, there was a quality of play against Belgium, it’s true. But be careful, he takes Deschamps’ place, we will have to hang on to do as well in terms of results because we must see that apart from Euro 2021, all the other competitions, we either won them or we lost against the winner. »
