At 73, Jacques Santini finished with his job as a coach. And after almost thirty years of career, who will have led him to the post of national coach between 2002 and 2004, the former defensive midfielder will therefore arrested in 2011 on an assistant position at the RC Lens, where he was responsible for bringing his experience but also protecting Jean-Guy Wallemme.
After having officiated on Canal+ in a consulting role, notably for The Specists and on the 11th of Europe, the native of the Territoire de Belfort was going to put on the general manager's costume at Paris FC, but the Tourna short experience.
Now retired, Jacques Santini did not leave all the green rectangles. On the contrary, the former coach of the Blues devotes himself more than ever to his other passion: poker. So much so that he recently joined the Winamax team, recently participating in the Winamax Poker Tour final in Aix-en-Provence.
Jacques Santini's “Bad Beat”
“I had done qualifying tests, all alone on my side, and it was then that” Wina “had offered to join the team. I always loved poker ”he explained in the columns of France Football. And this passion is not recent. “When I was a player at ASSE (from 1969 to 1981; he also resulted in the Greens between 1992 and 1994), we still played the watchtow of the great European Cup matches. We made a small kitty that we all drank together after ”also revealed the one who fell into it when he was a child and lived in the hotel-restaurant of his parents.
And Jacques Santini has already won a few places of honor during the tournaments in which he has taken part in recent years, like a 20e Place in Saint-Etienne or a 53e In a Parisian tournament, with a gain of 1,600 euros in the key.
The former Lyonnais can also boast of a 38th place during an event organized in the capital at the Montmartre club. With great regrets in the key. “I finished on a” bad beat “which could have made me spend one more day, he blown. I am a very calm player, but in these moments, I could go completely crazy. »»
