Is there a better documentary on football than Eyes in the Blues ? Its director, Stéphane Meunier, plunges us into the intimacy of the French team at the 1998 World Cup. And more than a quarter of a century later, certain scenes are still in all memories, notably the speech that Jacquet loved was to Robert Pirès before the start of the competition.
In the locker room, the tricolor coach loose to the young winger of the Blues: “Robert, whether right or left, no problem. You come, provocation. You are Emm*RDÉ, you know how to play football. Clac! Muscle your game! Muscle your game, Robert! If you don't muscle your game, be careful. I assure you, you will see, you will have disappointments because you are too nice. »»
Pirès “hyper surprised” by Jacquet's speech
An instructions that the former arsenal player (79 selections, 14 goals) reveals that he has never followed. “In the end, I did not musculate my gamehe smiles in the show Click. In fact, I'm super surprised that he told me that because I didn't expect it. And afterwards, when I analyze the sentence, I don't know what it means. Muscle your game. No, I never did it. »»
“My morphology is done so and I avoid all duels, mehe continues. This is not my game because I know that I am not good in this area. Others are, I am not and I did not want to enter this game. My strength on a field was something else, but not this one. »» His lack of physical impact will not have prevented her from having a great career.
