Didier Santini: “I have always preferred to play at the Vélodrome or Bollaert than in Monaco”
Current coach ofAdam Oudjani at Stade Briochin, Didier Santini one enjoyed a rich playing career. The former player of Marseille, Bastia, Toulouse or Lille was notably marked by the lair of RC lens, the stadium Bollaert.
Asked about the hottest stadiums in which he played, the left rear evokes in particular the enclosure lens noise : ” Furiani. Saint-Etienne is hot, Lens too. Bastia is explosive, fantastic. I always enjoyed it, even when I was in the opposing team. It takes madness. I love the smell, the scent. In the old stadium, I remember precisely a match against Nîmes in front of 8,000 spectators. It looked like there were 35,000 or 40,000. It was huge. The screams, the passion of the people. I played in stadiums where the guys came with knives. With us, it was not that. I have always preferred to play there, at the Vélodrome or at Bollaert than in Monaco. I needed to get into it, to actually be, booed sometimes. It was a source of motivation. When you enter the Vélodrome and there are 50 or 60,000 people, sometimes some OM players are afraid of missing their first pass. This is where you see the men. “
(Source : The Telegram)