Silence, les Girondins de Bordeaux sont morts ce soir — Foot11.com
The Girondins de Bordeaux are playing, at best, in National 1 next season. But the specter of bankruptcy is growing over the Matmut Atlantique, one of the harbingers of the descent into hell of a history of French football. More
Bordeaux falls asleep for good
The lights of the Matmut Atlantique will not come back on anytime soon. Unless Soprano, Indochine, Céline Dion or BigFlo and Oli decide to give it life. Without them, it remains empty, sad, dead. However, some have tried to give it a soul, in vain. The Ultras, as they say very well, will never forget all the moments spent at Lescure, which has become Chaban-Delmas. Of this city lair, now occupied by the UBB, not much remains. The Matmut is aesthetically successful, but never managed to become the stadium of the Girondins de Bordeaux. In Ligue 1, it was too often muted, despite the too often vain attempts of the Ultramarines to take the Bordeaux public with them. The latter, moreover, has deserted in recent years. But players and managers are (really) no strangers to it.
Over the years, Bordeaux has relied on an indifference unworthy of its status. The express (and calamitous) passage of GACP and Joe DaGrosa signed the death warrant of the club to the six titles of champion of France. By ratifying the sale of the club, Nicolas de Tavernost suffered from the disappearance of a 140-year-old club. Ironically, it was in 2021, at the start of the season, that the Girondins celebrated their anniversary. Some former glories of the club had come to compete on the lawn of Matmut, or rather René Gallice. Pauleta, Laslandes, Wiltord, Trémoulinas, Chamakh and even older ones. All those who wanted to write the history of one of the biggest clubs in the French championship. All those who made the scapular shine.
Arrived as a firefighter on duty in the summer of 2021 to take over a club in agony and on the verge of filing for bankruptcy, Gérard Lopez will ultimately only have delayed the deadline. A year later, before the DNCG, his file was brushed aside by the French foot constable. Very (too) far from Haillan, his rare and meaningless speeches will not have helped to improve a more than electric atmosphere within the club and between its supporters.
The fruit of bad labor
It is by cultivating this indifference and this lack of ambition that the Girondins are where they are today. In 2009, Laurent Blanc and his troops achieved the Ligue 1-Coupe de la Ligue double, before playing in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. It was twelve years ago. Since then, ridiculous passages in the European Cup, a League Cup gleaned against Evian Thonon-Gaillard in 2013, then a long and inevitable descent into hell.
The bad provoked and sporting choices canceled the loss of FC Girondins de Bordeaux. Already on the verge of relegation in 2021, there was no miracle last season. A last place, a record of goals conceded (91) to finally reach the bottom a few weeks later before the authorities of French football. Too many coaches have succeeded to launch any project. Since the departure of Laurent Blanc, thirteen coaches have been at the head of the Bordeaux team. From Jean Tigana to David Guion, via Francis Gillot, Willy Sagnol, Jocelyn Gourvennec, Gustavo Poyet, Paulo Sousa and Eric Bédouet. Too many names, but no game identity. No project. And Bordeaux is paying for it today.
The body of the FCGB was found dead on July 05, 2022, around 4:30 p.m., in front of the headquarters of the FFF, in Paris. After a first autopsy, he would have succumbed to his injuries, left for dead by his leaders. The Girondins sink in National 1, before most certainly filing for bankruptcy and returning to National 3. It’s quite special to write it. And yet, it is very real. Silence, the Girondins de Bordeaux are dead tonight.