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Bixente Lizarazu was the guest of Laurent Delahousse on France 2 on April 12. Two weeks later, a video of the 1998 world champion was revealed by the journalist. And he has lost none of his footballing qualities.
After a rich career as a professional footballer, notably punctuated by a world champion title in 1998 and a European title in 2000 with the French team, Bixente Lizarazu converted to consulting for various media. But the Basque has several strings to his bow and he released a new book on April 3, in which he talks about his passion for sport. Ten days later, he came to promote it on France 2, in Laurent Delahousse’s show, “ 8:30 p.m. Sunday “. Alongside the filming, a small sequence was filmed. It has just been revealed.
It was on the journalist’s social networks that this famous video was posted online this Thursday. We see him juggling a ball, just like his two guests: Bixente Lizarazu and the actor and comedian Ahmed Sylla. Rather comfortable with the ball despite his suit and his chic shoes, Laurent Delahousse therefore performs two or three juggles, imitated by a member of the technical team of France TV. It was at that moment that Bixente Lizarazu was caught up in his footballing past. And more particularly as a defender.
“We knew we were gambling with our lives”
Although dressed as in the city, the former left side of Bayern Munich then threw himself on the ground to tackle cleanly and remove the ball from his neighbor’s feet. Enough to make Ahmed Sylla jubilant, who burst into flames: “ This is the left rear. That’s how we got the World Cup. » A moment in history that Bixente Lizarazu had inevitably commented on two weeks earlier, during his interview with the journalist. “ 98 was a crazy day. We knew we were gambling with our lives. We knew it before. »
And the consultant continued: “ I get chills when I see that. I say to myself, ‘But how did we manage to achieve this extraordinary feat?’ (…) So, it was linked (by external observers, editor’s note) to ‘black-blanc-beur’ France, but we were just a bunch of friends. I was ready to sacrifice myself for Lilian Thuram, for Zinedine Zidane, for Fabien Barthez. And they would have done exactly the same thing for me. We were a team, we had fun living together, and above all we had a World Cup to experience in France and we should not miss it. And we were present. »
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