Guest of the Super Moscato Show, this Monday on RMC, Dominique Rocheteau, the former scorer for the French team and the great Saint-Etienne team in the 1970s-1980s, compared his stardom with that of Kylian Mbappé today today. And the 69-year-old ex-player, nicknamed the Green Angel, does not envy the Real Madrid center forward at all.
Dominique Rocheteau made the crowds dream in the jerseys of Saint-Etienne and PSG. The former striker with full hair was one of the stars of French football in the 1970s and 1980s, notably playing in the final of the European Champion Clubs' Cup (formerly the Champions League) with the Greens in 1976 and by winning the Euro with the Blues in 1984, alongside Michel Platini, Alain Giresse and Luis Fernandez. But the one nicknamed “the Green Angel” lived his notoriety quite calmly at the time. Far from social networks, the media hype and the omnipresent requests that are today part of the daily life of professional footballers.
Guest of the Super Moscato Show this Monday on RMC, on the occasion of the release of his book “Foot sentimental” (published on October 19 by Le Cherche-Midi), Dominique Rocheteau compared his time with that experienced by Kylian's generation Mbappé. A world monitored and commented on in its smallest details that he would not have liked to know at the moment when it shone on the green rectangle.
“There, I’m going to act a bit like a veteran, but honestly no. I wouldn’t like it,” explained the 69-year-old ex-player. “I don't want to compare myself to Mbappé, he's an extraordinary player, but I wouldn't like to have the life he has, based on what I see from the outside. In my time, football was less publicized than it is now. But it was still publicized, there were the World Cups, we were quite recognized, it was the number one sport. But I still had a normal life. normal youth I went to see concerts, I had friends who weren't in football and as soon as I had the chance, I could go abroad…”
“We, the journalists were in the locker room”
To illustrate the difference between the football he knew and that of today, Dominique Rocheteau gives an anecdote dating from his time at PSG (1980-1987): “I say in my book that I fell in love with 'a Canadian girl. I went to see Gerard Houllier (her coach), we had an important match. I told him: 'Listen, I have to go to Montreal, because something is happening.' am left, I came back the day before the match and I played (…) Today, they are obliged to pay attention to everything, even if it is only the relationships between athletes and the media. locker room, we were talking. I kept some journalist friends from the time. Now it's no longer possible.
