It is with sadness that AS Saint-Étienne learned this afternoon of the disappearance of Bernard Pivot, man of letters and great lover of the Greens.
Although born in Lyon, it was AS Saint-Étienne which captured the heart of Bernard Pivot. Placed in a boarding school, young Bernard is rewarded for his good work by coming to Geoffroy-Guichard, from Beaujolais where he grew up. When the grades were less good, it was to Lyon that his Loire father took him. Enough to motivate the intern, who is particularly gifted in French and history.
Bernard Pivot became a renowned journalist, then an equally skilled writer and a program host faithful to public service with Apostrophes (from 1975 to 1990) then Bouillon de culture (from 1991 to 2001). He also chairs the Goncourt academy (from 2014 to 2019). But before all that, this football enthusiast, from the French team and AS Saint-Étienne, notably covered four World Cups and joined the Board of Directors of the Greens in the 1980s, a consecration for someone who , from the epic, follows the adventures of Robert Herbin and his family, in good times and bad. A regular and intimate friend of the Greens locker room, he slips in a few books to keep the players occupied during long European trips. In 1980 he wrote a book on his club, “Football in Green” after the first season of Michel Platini of whom he was an admirer.
In 2016, with an express round trip from Paris to Étrat, he took the opportunity to have a dinner with his youth idols: Kees Rijvers, Rachid Mekhloufi, Bernard Lefevre, and many other players from 1957 to join in the birthday of the first city. A regular at the Musée des Verts, he loved telling everyone about his many memories shared with his father around the Verts.
It is to this simple and brilliant man that ASSE is thinking this evening, and to his loved ones to whom it sends its most sincere condolences.
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