Yoann Riou : “Je suis arrivé le soir à Bordeaux. J’ai posé mes affaires à l’hôtel et directement, je suis allé au Parc Lescure pour humer l’atmosphère”
On France Blue Girondethe journalist L’Équipe, Yoann Riouspoke of his “relationship” with the Girondins de Bordeaux, he who visited the club last Thursday, also participating in the press conference.
“Wednesday, I was in Niort all day, and I arrived in Bordeaux in the evening. I left my things at the hotel and went straight to Parc Lescure to take in the atmosphere. I went around two or three times, then I went to eat at the McDo next door (laughs). I was 7 years old for Bordeaux-Juventus, and it was Michel Drucker and Roger Piantoni who commented, it was enormous. I was lucky to have a childhood where football matches were rare on TV. We were waiting for them! It was a religion! At the time, a Bordeaux-Juventus, when you were 7 years old, it was wonderful because you didn’t have one every day… They were incredible names, Giresse, Platini… They were one of my most great memories, with the 86 World Cup which is the biggest, and there with 85 we wonder if Bordeaux will make the comeback, Battiston who scores and there is a little more than ten minutes left… It’s something that escort since forever, this nostalgia for a past… I really grew up small with the multiplex on the radio, and from then on I was madly in love with Wim Kieft, yet he didn’t do much for the Girondins… And names like Klaus Allofs, Clive Allen… And so, to follow Bordeaux at the start of the season, it’s a huge pleasure”.
Does he have a particular affection for the Girondins de Bordeaux?
“As I’m really a child of the 80s, explains, when I was little, where all the memories are imprinted for life in the heart, well it’s the Homeric French Cup finals between Bordeaux and Marseille, with this lob of Giresse… In addition, Giresse, I believe that he is the man who best tells about football in its nostalgia, in its melancholy… I had the chance to take him on a pilgrimage a few years ago to the channel L’Equipe, where we had relived the match of the French team against the FRG. Everything happens when you’re a kid, that is to say the match against AC Milan because there was Bordeaux, this Bordeaux with Chalana… His disappearance moves us a lot. And it’s true that at the time, you had Bordeaux-Dnipropetrovsk on Canal+, with the extraordinary voice of Charles Bietry, one has the impression that the guys are at the end of the world, in another planet, the voice that sizzles… These are memories that last a lifetime”.
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Seen at the Girondins de Bordeaux training center today. pic.twitter.com/Ce5QTjGdhM
— Yoann Riou (@riouyoann) August 11, 2022