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Journalist
Passionate about sport, cinema and television (on screen and behind) since his childhood, Bernard has been a journalist for 10 Sport since 2018. More skilled with the keyboard in hand than with the ball on his feet, he decides to mainly cover a beloved sport, criticized and hated at the same time (football) and a sport that is not one (wrestling).
PSG did not have to wait for the arrival of Qatar to have to deal with certain cases of players enjoying night outs in the capital, while Neymar or Marco Verratti were sometimes at the center of criticism for this reason. Twenty years ago, it was Ronaldinho who led a life contrary to that of an athlete, something that Luis Fernandez, his coach at the time, still remembers.
Emblematic player of Paris Saint-Germain before becoming their coach twice, Luis Fernandez has experienced almost everything in the capital. Glory, including the victory in the Cup of Cups in 1996 which remains to this day the only European title won by the PSGbut also the struggles, notably during his second stint at the head of the club, marked by his complicated relationships with Ronaldinhojustified by his appetite for late night parties.
“I was wished good luck”
« Ronaldinho is, with George Weah, the greatest player I have coached. I remember that when he arrived at the club in 2001, I was wished good luck in managing this young man of 21 years. However, the first year, he adapted well. With the staff, we made it grow. He got tougher and ended up world champion with Brazil “, remembered Luis Fernandez in the columns of The Team.
“Girls came to see him in his room during the greenery”
« Things got worse the following season. The Park security people told me that he went out partying every night, I was also warned that girls came to see him in his room during the green days. It was not my role to take care of the lives of each of my players. Normally, the club should have taken care of it. But Laurent Perpère (then deputy president of PSG) did not want it. I was made to appear as the bad guy on duty (he only started the Brazilian twenty times in D1 in 2002-2003), while I was defending the institution », defends himself Luis Fernandezwho will leave the PSG at the end of this season.
