Valent central defender of AS Monaco finalist of the 2004 Champions League, with Didier Deschamps at the helm, Gaël Givet then played the bites in the French team (by Lilian Thuram and William Gallas). Raymond Domenech selected it from the 23 players of the Blues for the 2006 World Cup in Germany and the Arlesian (who then played at OM) was a privileged spectator of the team's journey led by Zinédine Zidane to the World Cup final, for the terrible outcome in Berlin with a loss to penalties (1-1, 3-5 TAB).
Last guest of Legends podcastGivet thus returns to the exclusion of “Zizou” during extension against the Azzurri. From the sidelines, he has not seen the shot of Captain star of the selection on Marco Materazzi. He thus recounts the return to the locker room after the disillusionment, bronze medal around his neck. Givet evokes “Some tensions on the actions of certain players, who do certain displaced things and who are cropped by others”some looking at their phone while President Jacques Chirac is expected.
Givet thus looks at a zidane destroyed by his incredible player retirement: “There is Zizou who is a little sad and collapsed … There are some players who have not yet seen the images but who want him a little, others who do not understand, others who also support him …”
Blues want it to Zidane
“It makes a slightly bizarre atmosphere, we are hot, we come out of a World Cup final, so it's a little weird … There is no noise, there is no sound, until the president returns. After five, ten minutes, everyone is starting to go to the shower, it's starting to move, but for three or four minutes, it's very calm … There is no word (from Domenech, editor's note)nobody says anything “details Givet in The legends podcast.
The former defender also tells that “95 or 100%” Tricolore players have not seen Zidane's assault on Materrazi (or heard the insults of the Italian against the Marseille native). The players discover the idle of the ball when I got back to the hotel. “When we go back down and we all find ourselves, we have almost giggles, saying 'But what did he do?' »»laughs the former Monegasque, who claims not to blame Zidane at all for this premature outing, unlike other players from this group. “Because I am sure and certain that if it had not been there, we would not even have gone to the final, so like that, it is settled”he concludes.
