The past few weeks have been trying for Guy Roux. Not because of the results of AJ Auxerre. A spectacular winner of Olympique de Marseille, AJA also went to win in Reims (0-2) and brought the point of the draw of its trip to Nice on Friday.
But at the beginning of the month, Guy Roux learned of the death of Gérard Bourgoin, former president of the Burgundian club and one of “his three best friends”. “” He is one of my closesthe had entrusted to the team. Of these people without whom we would have done nothing, nothing successful from what we did. He was a character, with a strong personality. He made a village, he made a factory, he made a club. »»
The couple had separated because of football
Last summer, the former AJA coach had already had the pain of losing his former partner as recently revealed a portrait of him in Liberation. “” At his burial, there were a lot of peoplehis former students, his former colleagues ”, He said, explaining that the one who shared her life for decades enjoying a certain notoriety in the Icauni city.
Married in the summer of 1964, Guy Roux nevertheless saw football ruin this union. “I moved away from my wife because I was never there. I was always at the club where I worked sixty hours a week ”, he explained.
“My career even did the relationship with my wife in the air, even if you always get along well and have never been divorced. But she was aggregated with letters, and she was tired of not seeing me ”, Had he already told VSD on the occasion of the release of his Memoirs,
Confidences.
