When Henry gives improbable penalties to young Monaco players
As coach of AS Monaco, Thierry Henry did not hesitate to sanction his players as at school. Han-Noah Massengo in particular told to have received a writing of 200 words as punishment for a story of… chicken.
Coach Thierry Henry is not yet up to the player but he is in any case the rigor. During his brief stint in Monaco, the 1998 world champion was visibly illustrated by his intransigence, as recounted by former Monegasque midfielder Han-Noah Massengo, today in Bristol, in the format ” Deux Nuits Avec “hosted by Florian Gautier. He recounted the original punishments that Henry could address to young players in the ASM workforce.
A writing of 200 words …
“With Benoit Badiashile and Kephren Thuram we were punished by Thierry Henry, who was our coach at the time, because we did not eat very well, he confides when choosing an anecdote to reveal. had a 100-word essay written which went down to 200 words because Benoît Badiashile had the brilliant idea of saying that 100 words was not enough “.
Han-Noah Massengo, who plays in the Championship, detailed the reasons for this school sanction, almost childish: “After training, we were at the table. Thierry Henry saw us eat, I think I had put chicken in side of the plate because I was done. He said: ‘What are you doing here? This is not how we eat’. For 10 minutes, he would talk to us about this. says: ‘you will write a 100 word essay for tomorrow’. We had to bring the writing back. We didn’t know if it was serious or not but we did it anyway. “
As a reminder, the current assistant coach of Belgium and consultant for Prime Video only remained on the ASM bench for three months before being disembarked. For his part, Massengo only played 7 games in Monaco, all under Henry, before leaving the club. “I have no regrets. If I had to do it again, I would do it again every day,” he said in a recent interview with RMC Sport.
“I gained experience, obviously, I also changed a lot physically, he explained. For example, I grew and I took in mass from the first year. I had to learn to play with it. new sensations but to play in England, you have to be strong to resist the physical pressure of your opponents and string together matches every three days. you are not 100% physically you cannot do everything you would like to do. I learned to play in several positions, in 6 in front of the defense, in box to box, I also played 10 and even on one side. I am still learning to know myself as a player, I am in this process. “