Accustomed to responding to Internet users on his YouTube channel, Pierre Ménès launched a section devoted to files that animated his career. The latest concerns the French team. Known for its role as TV columnist on Canal + or M6, Ménès long worked in the landscape of the Blues during his visit to the newspaper L'Équipe.
The opportunity for the journalist to return to the great period of the Blues, between 1996 and 2002. So as close as possible to the group, Pierre Ménès established strong relationships with certain players, at a time when contacts between the press and footballers were less formalized.
The revelation of Pierre Ménès on the Blues
Among the French internationals close to Pierre Ménès notably included Youri Djorkaeff, Christophe Dugarry, Robert Pirès, Patrick Vieira, Laurent Blanc, Fabien Barthez or Bixente Lizarazu then Thierry Henry. The journalist thus underlines the importance of finding a good team composition when one is in charge of the coverage of the French team.
And with this in mind, Ménès had two allies of choice within the group: Christophe Dugarry and Robert Pirès. The two 1998 world champions did not hesitate to let go of the journalist, who was therefore rarely in his information on the compos and strengthened his credibility. A golden era which was not easy in the environment of the Blues, Aimé Jacquet having undergone a campaign of denigration on the part of the media.
Later, Pierre Ménès moved away from the French team. During the Knysna scandal in South Africa during the 2010 World Cup, Ménès officiated in Canal +. This violent and sudden crisis had been launched by the front page of the newspaper L'Equipe, opposing Nicolas Anelka and Raymond Domenech. The captain of the time, Patrice Evra, had then mentioned the existence of a mole. But this one, Pierre Ménès did not know him … According to the journalist, the informant was not a player, but an agent. All the actors in this file agree that the latter had distorted the comments really made by Nicolas Anelka.
