At 43, seven years after a final professional experience in Yverdon (Switzerland), in 2018, Djibril Cissé will offer a very beautiful jubilee to the public of the Stade de l'Abbé-deschamps, on May 27 in Auxerre. The casting of this gala meeting is more and more exceptional! After Steven Gerrard and Didier Drogba, the scorer trained at AJA announced the presence of a legend of the French team in the “Cisse All Stars”, namely Thierry Henry!
“Th 14 27/5/2025”first wrote Cissé last Thursday, clearly referring to his former teammate in the French team for eight years. The “djib” confirmed that it was “titi” live on the channel L'Equipe. “It was a little teaser, I can officially announce it today, Thierry Henry will be there”replied the native of Arles. “I decided to make a real tray”he had fun before promising “Several others”
Large glories.
Among the Blues, the former prodigy of Guy Roux started for the 2002 World Cup in South Korea, won the 2003 Confederations Cup (holder with Henry in the final against Cameroon), missed Euro 2004 due to a red card received in the Hopes, missed the 2006 World Cup after his fracture of the tibia (Sidney Govou was called in reinforcement) Was dismissed from the group before Euro 2008 and, finally, lived the 2010 World Cup fiasco in South Africa (starting the last match against the Bafana Bafana).
Thierry Henry against the “AJ Auxerre legends”
Faced with the “Cisse All Stars” (with the singer M Pokora, friend of Djibril), we will find the “legends of AJ Auxerre” and in particular the former teammates of the striker from 1999 to 2004, Philippe Mexès, Bacary Sagna, Lionel Mathis and Olivier Kapo.
After AJA, Djibril Cissé, French international from 2002 to 2011 (41 selections, 9 goals), played in many clubs, including Liverpool, Sunderland and QPR in England, OM and Bastia when he returned to France, as well as Panathinaikos, Lazio, Krasnodar or Al-Gharafa in Qatar.
