Pierre Sage is always relatively calm on the edge of the pitch when he manages Olympique Lyonnais. But the OL coach behaves radically different in the secrecy of the locker room.
The OL leaders have given their supporters a great gift while they are bored during this international break. Indeed, John Textor’s club has put an insider version of a documentary online on its OL Play channel, the summary of which suggests some delicious sequences: “ From the slap against Marseille to the string of four consecutive victories: a look behind the scenes (locker rooms, official photo, costume fitting) on the last weeks of OL. » And there is a sequence which is obviously creating a buzz, it is the one captured in the Groupama locker room at half-time of the Europa League match against Olympiakos on September 26, when the score was still 0 -0. For Pierre Sage, the time had come to climb the towers and take a huge hit.
After letting his players settle in, Pierre Sage then went up to the towers, with a few sessions in English for those in the OL locker room who would not understand his speech. “ Some people in the locker room are making a fuss because they’re not playing. Go ahead, play. Are you upset because you’re not playing? Okay, then play and win. And then I would say: “I made a mistake, sorry, you will play the next match”. Tell me, I don’t understand. Last season, you did something crazy, you qualified for the European Cup and all of a sudden it stops, why? We need to win, we need to win to reassure ourselves. A victory is the locker room, it is joyful (…) What do you want to do? A meal for depressives and everyone introduces themselves and gives their first name. Why are you here? Well I don’t know…and you? Because I like football. No ! We come there, we win matches, we turn teams around. Every time they come here, they have to be afraid. Every day you beat yourself up for fuck’s sake. We won’t do anything during the week, I’m willing, but every day, you give me high-level sessions, why are we playing like that? If we have respect for ourselves, we need to win this fucking game », balances the coach of Olympique Lyonnais, who was visibly heard since ultimately OL beat the Greek club with a score of 2 to 0. The meal for depressives was cancelled…
