Legend of French football, Alain Giresse, 73, returns to his great career for Altis FM. The opportunity to evoke the imprint he left to the Girondins de Bordeaux. Untenable playmaker, the pocket midfielder (1.62 m) is the most capped player and the top scorer in the history of the Aquitaine club (592 matches from 1970 to 1986, for 181 goals), with two titles of champion of France to the key (1984 and 1985). Lescure's idol then played two seasons at OM under Bernard Tapie.
Giresse is obviously a historic player in the Blues. First snubbed by Michel Hidalgo because considered a simple lining of Michel Platini, “Gigi” was then associated with his Bordeaux teammate Jean Tigana, tireless recuperator, and “Platoche”. The three artists then formed the “magic square” of the French team in the company of Bernard Genghini then of Luis Fernandez as a Euro 84 approached which offered the very first coronation to France in collective sport!
The French team at Euro 1984.
In this interview, Alain Giresse explains that he was carried during his three careers (he was then coach and leader) by “The passion for football”,, “Respect for people”the will to workr “with values ​​of respect, to be conciliatory and to understand people, benevolent, to be human”. Girondin now has many friends after so many adventures and is pleased to “Relive the moment”even if some traveling companions are no longer of this world.
Very friendly chase with Lacombe
“Unfortunately, we sometimes have very hard and very cruel situations lately, that's why I was very touched by his death, because we had a depth of relationship”thus regrets Alain Giresse about Bernard Lacombe, who died on June 17, at the age of 72. Lacombe is the second player with whom Giresse has evolved the most, on the occasion of 265 matches, in hopes then in the French team, but especially from 1979 to 1986 in Girondins de Bordeaux.
Lacombe competed in the 1978 World Cup without Giress, then the 1982 World Cup with his Girondin friend to the tragic France-RFA in the semi-finals in Seville. The scorer retired after the coronation at the Euro and did not experience the epic of the World 86 until 3rd place. A Alain Giresse to conclude: “Life is sometimes hard, but what happiness I had to live what I experienced with him, as a teammate, roommate, in club. It is through that I work, I lived and I live ”.
