Aimé Jacquet in the heart of a plot?

Before leading the Blues to the world coronation in 1998, Aimé Jacquet had to compose with a plot hatched by the team.

The release of Aimé Jacquet, just a few minutes after having seen his players offer France his first World Cup thanks to an incredible 3-0 success against Brazil, is still in all memories. “I will never forgive”, he launches to the team.

“A certain press lied shamefully. I have only contempt for these people ”, he continues, still castigating “Thugs, irresponsible, dishonest and incompetent” before talking about “monopoly of imbecility”. The diatribe is uncompromising and the French public takes up the cause for the former midfielder, brought to the clouds in the same way as Zinedine Zidane or Fabien Barthez.

The team is trying to do its mea culpa. So sincere had been our distrust a few weeks ago, so sincere is today our desire to congratulate Aimé Jacquet. May he hear it like this, ”writes the daily sports. But the evil is done.

“Aimé Jacquet is a draw, he takes us into the wall”

Pierre Ménès, former reporter to L'Equipe, returned to this episode, ensuring that he had moved before the start of the Campaign World Cup led by the newspaper against Aimé Jacquet.

“A month and a half before the start of the World Cup, there is a big meeting to the team, he says in a video posted on his YouTube channel. The moment we have the right to ask questions. I raise my hand and I say, because we felt that the team already had a very anti-loved Jacquet position: 'we have the best goalkeeper in the world, the best defense in the world, the best player in the world. We have a cardboard group, so there is still a probability that it all goes so bad. Couldn't we go a little more soft on the anti-jacquet campaign? '. And there I was told 'firm there, you understand nothing, Jacquet is a draw, he takes us into the wall'. »»

This outing will also have serious consequences for the journalist. “This is why I was dismissed from the coverage of the French team on this competition”,

He says before asserting that loved Jacquet had always known how to make things.

“Obviously behind, to the team, there had really been a very bizarre atmosphere because the bosses who had initiated this anti-Jacques campaign were on the hot seat,

he says. I know that loved it has always done things and has always been charming with me. He knew I was against this anti-jacquet campaign. »»