The Bundesliga has been hosting many French talents for several years, notably for the “post-former”, but in a fairly surprising way, Borussia Dortmund, the LOSC opponent in the knockout stages of the Champions League, has only one French player this season, namely the Guinean international Serhou Guirassy. Before that, Guillaume Warmuz, Dan-Axel Zagadou, Soumaïla Coulibaly, Abdou Diallo, Guy Demel, Raphaël Guerreiro, Damien Le Tallec, Ousmane Dembélé, Anthony Modeste, Sébastien Haller and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang have evolved in the BVB (they are all natives of hexagon but some obviously chose another national team France).
Warmuz, he evolved two seasons in Dortmund, from 2003 to 2005. An essential goalkeeper of the RC Lens in the 90s, champion of France and finalist of the French Cup in 1998, he lost his place in Sang et Or to spin at Arsenal as a lining for a few months. Then he joined Westphalia, where he discovered the incredible “yellow wall” of the Dortmundian stadium.
“When you go out to warm up and have the 22,500 guys on the wall that chant your name, all of a sudden everything is fine, you are focused. Just this wall is more than the Louis II stadium! »»recalls Warmuz in The team.
Warmuz repatriated by his friend Deschamps
Guillaume Warmuz manages to compete with Roman Weidenfeller, then a young goalkeeper of Borussia (who then became the third most capped player of the club). He says: “It was going well there. When I signed in Monaco, I was going to prolong two years. I had become the ideal n ° 2, at almost 36 years old, I put Roman Weidenfeller in the best conditions, suddenly I was ready to finish like that. And Didier Deschamps called me: 'Here, we play the Champions League, I would not like a n ° 2 but a n ° 1 bis. Does that tell you? ' We knew each other well. I go to Monaco and the Great fart the adductors. Suddenly, I play practically all season. »»
Flavio Roma injured, Warmuz played 37 matches with the ASM de Deschamps in the 2005-2006 season. Two years after the epic of the Patrice Evra, Ludovic Giuly and Jérôme Rothen until the Champions League final against Porto, the Monegasques, led by Javier Chevanton, Olivier Kapo or Marco Di Vaio in attack, end up a pitiful 10th place and are eliminated in the 16th finals of the UEFA Cup Qualifying Tower of the C1). Warmuz is seriously injured in the knee in March 2006 and lets Stéphane Ruffier become number 2 behind Flavio Roma. As for Deschamps, for his first trainer experience, he left the Principality club.
