After Strasbourg’s victory over Lyon (2-1) on Sunday evening, Laurent Blanc had a message to pass on to his former teammate in the France team, Patrick Vieira.
For its first match of the 2023-2024 Ligue 1 season, Sunday evening at La Meinau, Olympique Lyonnais lost 2-1 to Strasbourg. A meeting marked by the great reunion between the two 98 world champions, Laurent Blanc and Patrick Vieira, appointed coach of the Alsatian club during the off-season. And obviously, the Cevennes coach had a few words to say to his former teammate…
At the final whistle, the two French technicians greeted each other, before exchanging briefly. As shown in images captured by Amazon Prime Video, Laurent Blanc took this opportunity to reproach Patrick Vieira for his last absences from the groupings of world champions 98. “I always come”retorted the Alsatian coach, before being taken over by his Lyon counterpart, hilarious: “You never come, with ‘Titi’ (Thierry Henry, editor’s note), you never come. »
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“Come on, let’s have fun! »
“I’m going to tell him (to Thierry Henry, editor’s note) and I tell him that I’m coming”replied Vieira to the advances of Blanc, who added a layer “Come on, let’s have fun! ». “OK, I promise I’m coming, I’ll do it”then promised the former Arsenal midfielder.
The former players of France 98 regularly organize reunions, in particular to celebrate the anniversary of their coronation, as was the case again this year for the 25th anniversary. Indeed, Zinedine Zidane had invited his former friends to Aix-en-Provence, on his Five complex, at the beginning of the summer. Didier Deschamps, Bixente Lizarazu or even Christophe Dugarry had answered the call, unlike Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira.
