Although his playing career is far behind him, Raymond Domenech still crystallizes the resentment and anger of supporters, for his rough defensive play. He was able to see it once again.
Long before becoming the coach of the French team, finalist of the 2006 World Cup, Raymond Domenech was a football player. During a career spanning the 1970s and 1980s, the former defender made an impression, particularly due to his particularly hard and committed play. Several decades later, the players who worked with him, but also the supporters, have forgotten nothing of the seventy-one year old man’s style of play. Football fans took it upon themselves to cut him a new suit.
On the occasion of a subject published by The Team, giving the floor to some veterans – and in particular to Raymond Domenech – on the “nastiest” players, the former companion of Estelle Denis was not spared from the criticism. Comments and reactions have therefore regularly targeted this one. “ I was terrified as soon as I saw Domenech and his mustaches appear », first remembered this Internet user, then a young spectator present in the stands of the Parc des Princes during the 1973 Coupe de France final between Nantes and Lyon (1-2).
“Domenech, a combine harvester”
Other criticisms, more trenchant, also flourished. “ Domenech as bad a coach as a player “. “ Raymond Domenech wins for all his gratuitous nastiness “. “ I cannot have any consideration for Raymond Domenech even today. I saw him play and his abject behavior on the field cannot be that of a noble soul.e “. “ Domenech, a combine harvester “. But despite everything, the former player, who also played for Strasbourg and Paris Saint-Germain, did not seem unhappy to remain in the memory of football fans, even negatively.
He also said it in this cross-interview. “ The new generations no longer know us as a player but as a coach, commentator or consultant… But we cultivate our legend with the words of the elders who still talk about us. » And Raymond Domenech recontextualizes things, while admitting that all this would no longer be possible in modern football: “ But those were the times. Guys like Bernard (Boissier) or me, there were four or five per team. If you weren’t like that, it’s simple, you weren’t playing. We were doing individual marking and if the guy escaped, it was your fault. If we played now like then, there is not a match that would go to the end. I prefer now because at least you can play. »
