2024-09-11 11:55:30
The 2024-2025 season is just ahead of you and French football is losing one of its most worthy representatives. September 11, 2024, Didier Roustan died after an illness found before the summer, at the age of 66. The announcement caused a shock in the football and journalistic circles, as evidenced by the shower of tributes in honor native of Brazzaville (Congo) from Thursday morning.
First there are the first tributes. Those who spread the news before it is confirmed by the media, and first The teamHis last employer. At 10:27 am, the Mayor of Cannes David Lisnard salutes the memory of “a passionate Cannes resident, attached to red and white”, a photo of the journalist with the AS Cannes Jersey in support, he is a former sponsored player with the Dragons.
Then came the surprise. Of journalists who know and work with Didier Roustan for years, but also of anonymous people, surprised to hear the news. “I can’t believe it… It’s impossible,” wrote RMC designer Daniel Riolo, for example.
Then find the memories. Because Didier Roustan never noticed. By your look, your voice, your thoughts. Either at the beginning of Téléfoot in the 1970s or through his reports on Antenne 2, or more recently in L’Équipe du Soir, on the L’Équipe channel, which will dedicate a special program to him this Wednesday evening.
Along with Georges Dominique, Michel Denisot and Philippe Houy, Didier Roustan is one of the main faces of Téléfoot. Photo: Alain de Martignac / Sports Icon 2024 Sports logo
In Europe 1, not without the complaint of Michel Denisot, with whom Didier Roustan had, among other things, commented on the final of Euro 1984 between France and Portugal, paid tribute to his friend. “We are close. There is real love. So it’s very difficult today. He loves Cantona, Maradona… These players of this person. He showed the passer as the one who scored the goal,” recalled the former president of PSG.
“He has a passion for the game. Everything else, the business of football, is not his passion. He had a phenomenal memory. And from all times. It’s sad for that,” he continued, referring to the name of Johan Cruyff, a figure of love football who does not exist today in Roustan’s eyes.
On “Lucho, left foot, and why not? He picked up my rabbit! And my little! My little Lucho,” Didier Roustan raves about the Argentine, who remembers Thierry Giraldi’s brilliant strike on Franck Ribéry’s goal against Spain in the 2006 World Cup.
A The teamMichel Platini also paid tribute to Didier Roustan. “He is a football fan and journalist,” said the 1984 European champion “He came after Thierry Roland and before Thierry Gilardi, with his style, his voice, his love for South America, and his good knowledge of football. We are friend, but not a friend, I’m more like Diego or Canto. We had lunch together a few months ago. He was a very nice person. »
Clubs, associations, companies, players, colleagues and ordinary football fans are making their contribution today to the great tribute that French football pays to Didier Roustan. This Thursday, thousands of “brave” people are mourning him.
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