After a busy career, marked in particular by a European championship title with the French team in 2000 and two English championship titles with Arsenal (2002 and 2004), Sylvain Wiltord decided to extend the pleasure with Metz. On January 30, 2010, he joined the Metz team, then a resident of Ligue 2 and in the race to move up to the elite.
For his first match with the Grenats, Wiltord made an impression by scoring a double against Nîmes. The rest was more complicated for the former Bordeaux striker, who only scored one goal in his next ten matches. At the end of the season, FC Metz missed the climb, and the native of Neuilly-sur-Marne was not extended. Despite that, he left a very good memory in Lorriane.
Former Messin, Stéphane Bobiconi returned to Hugo Jaskowiak’s microphone on the passage of Sylvain Wiltord to Saint-Symphorien.
“He was a top guy, a top player”
“The year Sylvain Wiltord comes, Papiss Cissé leaves in January. We finish 4e. It’s also a slightly unfinished perfume because it was good. We had Papiss who was capable of the best and the worst. He could score improbable goals, but he was our scorer up front. We didn’t go up because before Sylvain Wiltord arrived, we played several matches without a striker. We had two draws, one victory, one defeat over this period. Sylvain’s first match, he scores a double. He had scored another goal, but hey…”remembered Bobiconi in comments reported by Girondins4ever.
And to continue: “ With “Nino” (Wiltord’s nickname), it was great, he was a top guy, a top player obviously, with a lot of experience. It was great. He’s a super nice guy. He was talking in the locker room, he was one of the leaders. Obviously, when you arrive at a Ligue 2 club, when you were European champion (with the Blues in 2000), when you played at Arsenal, when you have a lot of experience, you arrive to share this experience. » After Metz, Wiltord joined Nantes for a season, before hanging up his boots.
