Golazothe Podcast de Sports.fr returns to the constitution of the French team for the 1998 World Cup, won at the end of a final won 3-0 against Brazil thanks to a double by Zinedine Zidane and a last goal from Emmanuel Petit. The book The Night of the Cursed (Fayard), published by Karim Nedjari in 2018, recounts the sidelining of the six banished, Lionel Letizi, Martin Djetou, Pierre Laigle, Sabri Lamouchi, Ibrahim Ba and Nicolas Anelka. The presence of Christophe Dugarry in the group of 22 players composed by the coach Aimé Jacquet is therefore explained.
“Duga” was the big friend of “Zizou”, installed number 10 of the EDF for Euro 96. The two offensive players already knew themselves junior selections when the Marseille native arrived in Bordeaux in 1992. He turned directly to Girondin, the young starlet of the club resulting from the training center. The two friends and Bixente Lizarazu brought the FCGB to the UEFA Cup final in 1996, notably after an exceptional victory against Grand Milan (3-0), thanks to two goals from Dugarry on a Zidane service.
Aimé Jacquet, coach disputed by the French press, first gave a list of 28 players for an internship in Tignes, but without Didier Deschamps, Christian Karembeu and Zinédine Zidane, who played the final of the Champions League Real Madrid-Juventus. Back in Clairefontaine, the tricolor coach dismissed six players on the evening of May 22 by bringing them back to his room at the castle. However, during the day, Aimé Jacquet had summoned Christophe Dugarry to give him his verdict concerning him.
Aimé Jacquet loves Christophe Dugarry
“Christophe, I think in you, I have always known you, I know that I can go to fire, to the front, to the war with you”then launched Jacquet in Dugarry. The technician had indeed led the Girondins de Bordeaux from 1980 to 1989 and had rubbed shoulders with the 17 -year -old left winger. Dugarry then had a scooter accident and one day landed at the Haillan in a wheelchair, with the collarbone and the fed fined. It was Didier Couécou, successor of “Granny”, who launched Dugarry in French D1, in May 1989.
The book The Night of the Cursed Also tells the latest training before the six players of the French team. During an opposition, Dugarry, perhaps relieved by the words of Jacquet, made the nets tremble and Marcel Desailly, the great leader of the locker room with Laurent Blanc and Didier Deschamps, then shouted: “That's good Dugarry!” You are going to have it Wild Cardmy friend! »» Discomfort with other offensive players on the hot seat. “Duga” and “The Rock” had evolved together at AC Milan during the 1996-1997 season …
