Bordeaux supporters will necessarily be nostalgic in the coming days. While the Girondins must prepare for a new season in National 2, the club at the Scapulaire celebrates indeed 40e Anniversary of his memorable double-confrontation with Juventus Turin in the semi-finals of the 1985 Champions Club Cup.
After a heavy 3-0 defeat in Piedmont, marked by an arbitration error on the third goal scored by Michel Platini shortly after the hour of play, Bordeaux had passed very close to the feat on the return, winning it 2-0 and even having a 3-0 ball in the last moments of the meeting.
Despite elimination, Bordeaux wrote one of the most beautiful pages in its history against Juventus.
Aimé Jacquet could feed regrets. While he refused to marking individual on Michel Platini during the first leg, the Bordeaux coach had indeed revised his plans on the return. This time he had established Gernot Rohr to play the dogs on guard on the playmaker of the Blues, even if it means leaving Chalana on the bench, and the situation had been completely different.
“The 1985 match against Juve is the top of what we did here. I think that if we had been protected, because I recall that at that time we played on Tuesday and Friday in the league and Wednesday in the European Cup -so for recovery, you see … -, it would have happened “,
had he entrusted on the occasion of the 30the Match anniversary against Juve.
Aimé Jacquet, greater coach of the Girondins
Despite this guilty error during the first round in Italy, this double confrontation in front of Juve had added to the legend of Aimé Jacquet, almost or unanimously considered as the greatest coach in the history of the club to the scapular. In nine years on the Girondin bench, the former Stéphanois wrote the most beautiful Bordeaux pages with three titles of champion of France (1984, 1985, 1987), two Coupe de France (1986, 1987) and therefore several European epics.
“For me, obviously it's Aimé Jacquet. The modern era means that Aimé Jacquet is the coach who won the most trophies with the Girondins de Bordeaux. More than 420 games with the Girondins, Recently entrusted the specialist of Girondins Julien Bée in the podcast the debriefs. It was not he who coached the most since it was André Gérard who coached the Girondins de Bordeaux the most in the 1950s and then he returned in the 1970s. But it is true that Aimé Jacquet was the one by whom we went to Haillan anyway. It was he who, after seeing the place, told Claude Bez 'I think that is where we have to go if we really want to pass a level'. It was he who chose this so there is a whole environment that is still today, from the idea of Aimé Jacquet. It is important. »»
And feeling is the same among former players.
“Aimé Jacquet refers to the best years of the Girondins,” explained Patrick Battiston, emblematic player of the club. Before his arrival, the club played mainly the maintenance and he made Bordeaux one of the strong places in French football. He was ahead of his time in coaching. He was a real leader of men and he really knew how to find the words to talk to his players. »»
But despite his status in Gironde, Claude Bez did not hesitate to thank him in 1989 when the club crossed a delicate period. A dismissal experienced as a heartbreaker by the native of Sail-sous-Couzan.
