Having passed through several elite clubs with 136 matches in the first division, Sébastien Dallet experienced a difficult reconversion and personal problems which made him hit rock bottom.
Sébastien Dallet was not even 18 years old when Marseille, Monaco and Auxerre, three of the biggest clubs in France, competed for his favors, seduced by his good performances in D2 with Orléans. However, amazed by the atmosphere of Bollaert and the people of the North, the native of Bourges finally chose Lens. The start of a professional career which lasted 14 years and took him through Guingamp, Sochaux, Créteil and Troyes after a contrasting debut with the Sang et Or and marked by a confrontation with Lazio Rome in the UEFA Cup .
His career came to an abrupt end at the age of 32 with Troyes’ descent to Ligue 2 after a nightmarish year between serial injuries and the serious illness of his wife. Sebastien Dallet then launched into insolated football but his company went bankrupt while his wife left him. “In the snap of your fingers, you find yourself divorced, you lose your business and you no longer have any money. You are facing your financial difficulties. I’m not the first, not the last. Today, it’s simple: there are three bailiffs to whom I have to report every month. I don’t have a side circle, nothing left, he told So Foot, specifying: “It’s easier to talk about it now because today I bounced back. I found a job. »
The struggle lasted four years. “ It’s been two years since I met a new woman. She gives me a lot of support, listening, discussions… I just had to find a job. I work in logistics, I take care of a warehouse, we store goods there. I was offered this job saying: “Maybe it’s not a great job, sorry…”. I replied: “I’m unemployed, I have to earn money!” » With the bailiffs, every day, it’s a mess. It’s unmanageable,” he explained, before adding: “The bailiffs took my car away, so now I have a bike. They’re not going to take my bike, anyway… I have the right amount of furniture so they won’t be allowed to touch it. They’re worth five bucks each. A table, a sofa, a TV, two chairs and a bed. »
“Today, if my girlfriend didn’t exist, I would stop living on the 15th of the month. I die for fifteen days and then I come back, at the beginning of each month, he whispered again, congratulating himself on his greatest victory: he overcame his addictions which had caused him to fall: “It’s like you’re surrounded. So you do what you shouldn’t do: return to addictions. You start drinking again, firecrackers… It helps you fall asleep. Quite simply. » But Sébastien Dallet did not wait for his problems to drink. While he was playing in Créteil, by his own admission he made the most of life. “You have money, so you have fun. I was out almost every evening… Ask Marco Verratti, he will tell you what Paris is like at night! (Laughs.) At the time, everywhere I went out, there was Ronaldinho. Everywhere. I had my key to access the Barrio Latino VIP. I went to Queen, Bains Douches, La Cantine du Faubourg… I have good memories of it, because this period was very short, otherwise I would have stopped playing football much earlier. he confided again.
