Jean Tigana, tributes and emotion

Accustomed to the anonymity of the National 2, AS Cannes returned under the spotlight this week. As a result of his French Cup semi-final disputed this Wednesday against Reims. Thirty-three years later, the men of Damien Ott will therefore have done as well as their glorious predecessors, when the French Riviera club, led in particular by Luis Fernandez and Zinedine Zidane, had been eliminated on penalties by the Monegasque neighbor at the gates of the final.

Other big names from the French team have passed through Cannes, including Patrick Vieira, Johann Micoud but also William Ayache and Bruno Bellona in the 80s. Invited by the Team to compose his ideal eleven of AS Cannes, his training club, Sébastien Frey did not fail to hold the former striker of the French team, member of a very closed club. Thanks to his goal scored against Spain in the final of Euro 1984, he is among the players to have scored during a final of a large tournament alongside Michel Platini, Zinedine Zidane, Emmanuel Petit, Antoine Griezmann, Paul Pogba and Kylian Mbappé.

“A career hampered by a cursed injury which forced him to stop at 28 years old. I really appreciate it. I am also a very fan because Bruno made a lot of mistakes in his life and he was one of the only ones to have the humility to tell everything and send a message to generations after, he said about the native of Toulon. He is always very grateful to the people who helped him, in the first place of Jean Tigana, who had helped him to mop up his debts by organizing his jubilee. »»

While his career had broken with his ankle in a D1 match against Montpellier Bruno Bellone was indeed a victim of another blow. Imagining themselves sheltered from need thanks to real estate purchased with the 15 million francs gathered during his career, the one that Didier Roustan natives Lucky Luke in Téléfoot is indeed completely ruined because of the Krach Immobilier. Consequence of a hazardous investment offered by a friend: the purchase of a villa of several hundred square meters on the heights of Cannes.

“Jean Tigana was huge”

Having become a recruiter at AS Cannes, the former player finds himself having some five million francs in the banks and left to sleep in his car after having had to leave his home following his divorce. At the Abois, he will try to publicize his situation on the set of Julien Courbet. Successfully since Jean-Luc Etorri and Jean Tigana will have the case of the case. The two men will put pressure on the creditor banker of Bruno Bellone and will obtain that the debt is reduced to just over three million francs.

Above all, Jean Tigana will struggle to organize the jubilee of his former teammate, obtaining the presence of Luis Fernandez, Manuel Amoros, Patrick Battiston, Zinedine Zidane, Christophe Dugarry, Fabien Barthez, Thierry Henry, Robert Pirès, Éric Cantona, Jean-Pierre Papin, Luc Sonor Milla. Beautiful people that will allow Louis II to refuel and Bruno Bellone to mop up his debts for good.

“I had everything at the same time. I lost my job, I divorced, I lost everything, I lived in my car,

He had told RMC microphone, tears in his eyes. Jean Tigana was huge. He called me, he was coach of Monaco. I was a little luck. He didn't know what happened to me. »»