The death of Didier Roustan, the end of the game – Libération

2024-09-11 10:03:11

The encyclopedic football journalist, who worked for TF1, France Télévisions, Canal and l’Equipe TV, was a fan of the game. He died on Wednesday 11 September 66 at the age of 66.

Her bulldog is named Emma Peel in homage to the slightly unsavory spy who never ceases to annoy her alter ego John Steed in the series. Bowler hat and leather boots. Quirky, it is an understatement to say that Didier Roustan, who died on Thursday, September 11 at the age of 66, was. A child journalist of football, he created a unique way of talking about football on TV, tracking his brilliant and cheeky analyzes with his warm voice on the small screen for four decades, moving from one channel to another without losing his trademark drop: talking (in the end) about the game as an art without forgetting that it is first and foremost a game, that says its indifference through the knowledge of football as detailed as it is encyclopedic.

He was born in October 1957 in Brazzaville (where his father worked for the IMF) but it was in Cannes, with his grandparents, that he grew up. “I have flashes. I remember the weather. When I go back to Africa, I feel happy.” he confided to Release it in 2006, on the eve of the World Cup which will end with Zidane’s headbutt, a gesture which must not have angered him. In Cannes, in the team that will create Zidane, he plays libero, the last base of defense. At 16, he learned with the pros, at 17, the coach suspended him for misconduct, at 18, he entered an internship at TF1 for the summer, at 21, he presented Telefoot… Such a meteoric rise, that the ruptures will be determined. It will run on Canal, then, in 1993, it is Question 2, in France Télévisions. A time when he brought together a short-lived union of players, ranging from Maradona to Cantona. Unmanageable, he slammed the door in 1998, thought to be a taxi but we did it At the end of the ball, on l’Equipe TV, a unique debate show that has become a cult, which will carry the roots of the present Evening change (who is president for life). On air, she always or almost always wears a dress (back) from her impressive collection. This South American soccer fan will definitely say that his favorite is Argentinos Juniors, the team from Maradona’s beginning

Saying football from a human level, far from statistics, regulations and slow motion, such is the mantra of the free will that infuses its comments with musical references, and does not hesitate to replace the sound of the composition of a game where Platini is present. not the best by the It’s nothing by Julien Clerc… Near Release it In 2006, he noted: “A friend of mine once told me that I am a rebel. Because in the word there is “dream, radiation and air”. And I need some air. “