2024-05-15 06:37:35
By Le Figaro with AFP
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Zidane, final night time, on the one hundredth anniversary of Parc Lescure. ROMAIN PERROCHEAU / AFP
The legends of the Girondins gathered for a gala match final night time to rejoice the hundred years of Parc Lescure in Bordeaux.
Zidane, Giresse, Lizarazu, Pauleta, Gourcuff, the legends of the Girondins have been all current to rejoice the hundred years of Parc Lescure which they as soon as once more lit up, Tuesday throughout a gala match gained towards the Variétés Membership of France (5-3). “It’s so good to come back again to this stadium which has introduced us a lot pleasure, recollections and happiness,” commented Bixente Lizarazu. Discovering all these generations of former gamers, it was a really good night”.
It’s uncommon to rejoice a stadium however Lescure, in Artwork Deco fashion with avant-garde structure, with out supporting pillars, deserved this night in entrance of 28,000 supporters, weaned from leads to latest seasons, and who have been capable of bathe within the area 90 minutes of communion and pleasure, in a serene nostalgia. The scapular staff lined up from the beginning appeared excellent with the Giresse-Gourcuff-Zidane trio to enliven the sport and feed Pauleta, Cavenaghi and Dugarry up entrance. “This atmosphere is gorgeous to see”Lizarazu smiled.
Reverse, the Variétés didn’t differ with 4 world champions, Laurent Blanc, Christian Karembeu, Robert Pirès and Fabien Barthez with out gloves or the right gestures of the attacker that he has grow to be.
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Properly launched by a double from Pauleta, and his celebration as in his heyday by imitating the chook of the Azores, the general public of Chaban, its identify since 2001, appreciated this return of soccer on this historic den which hosted two World Cups. world of soccer and which has been a spotlight of the Union Bordeaux-Bègles rugby gamers for 9 years.
Alain Giresse, 71 years outdated, the +Little Prince of Lescure+, emblematic captain, who performed probably the most matches and scored probably the most objectives on this stadium, lasted forty minutes earlier than leaving to a standing ovation, similar to Zidane 4 minutes later after proving that the years don’t have any affect on his distinctive method, which Lescure had the prospect to admire for 4 seasons. The Variétés, tinged with outdated Marseillais, which revived some ancestral songs of the Virage Sud, decreased the mark to the half hour by Mamadou Niang.
As an emblem, the third Bordeaux purpose was the work of Diego Rolan, who had scored the membership’s final purpose with the scapular on this stadium towards Nantes on Could 9, 2015, earlier than Ludovic Obraniak worsened the rating for the Girondins with a silky lob.
It was one other Giresse, Thibault, the son, born in Gironde with out ever having worn the navy and white colours, who decreased the rating for the primary time. Shortly after, Steve Savidan introduced the Variétés to a purpose however the final phrase got here from Laurent Ferrères, ex-UBB rugby participant who now shines on this historic temple of French sport.
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