“Muscle your game, Robert!” If you don't muscle your game, be careful. I assure you, you will see, you will have disappointments because you are too nice. »» This sentence pronounced by Aimé Jacquet before the 1998 World Cup, and captured by Stéphane Meunier in the famous documentary Eyes in the Bluesstuck to Robert Pirès's skin throughout his career.
Technique and provocative ball on the foot on its left side, from Metz to Aston Villa via OM, Arsenal and Villarreal, the former winger of the Blues has always been a player who was fleeing the duels. “It's not my game because I'm not good in this areahe confided recently in Clickon Canal+. My strength on a field was something else, but not that one. »»
You have to believe that at 51, Robert Pirès has changed somewhat. On Wednesday, during a charity match between legends of the round ball organized in Greece, in the Pok Salonica, the ex-player of the Gunners took the beak with an old acquaintance, Theodoros Zagorakis. The context did not lend itself to it, but the temperature quickly rose between the two men.
Robert Pirès finds an old acquaintance and it skids
After a missed dribbling, the Frenchman hung on to the Greek to try to recover the leather. The latter ended up on the ground and, by getting up, obviously slipped to the 1998 world champion and European champion 2000 a few sweet words, which made him lose his nerves. Several players, including Daniel Van Buyten, had to intervene to separate them, the Habs being very upset.
What could theodoros zagorakis tell him? Perhaps he reminded him of their confrontation of June 25, 2004, in the quarterfinals of the Euro. A France-Greece traumatic for the Blues, beaten by the winners of the competition (0-1), on a goal from Angelos Charisteas (65th). Robert Pirès had played 79 minutes and the former Aek Athens player had taken a yellow card (50th).
