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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).
Former Paris Saint-Germain defender, Eric Rabesandratana has still not digested his ouster by Luis Fernandez in 2001. Recently questioned about the end of his adventure in the capital, the man who now works as a consultant shared his frustration with the lack of explanations from the coach at the time and the consequences of his forced departure.
Passed by Paris Saint-Germain between 1997 and 2001, Eric Rabesandratana saw the end of his adventure in the capital turn sour. The former defender was in fact one of the victims of the appointment of Luis Fernandeznot counting on him for his second experience on the Parisian bench. Rabesandratan left the club in 2001, joining Greece with the AEK Athens. More than twenty years later, he still hasn't digested it.
“I would have liked to understand his choices”
« I don't forget what happened and his treatment of me. When Luis Fernandez arrives, overnight, he throws me away and makes me responsible for I don't know what… He was incapable of giving me a valid reason to justify removing me from the team and put me on the bench. I went to see him three times to ask him for explanations, saying “Tell me, what I need to work on to improve my game and to play” and I never got a response from him. So it was a huge frustration for me, because I would have liked to understand his choices (…) I greatly regretted my departure from PSG, because it was the starting point of a series of problems », revealed Eric Rabesandratana in an interview given to CulturePSG.
“When you are no longer allowed to change in the professional locker room while you are under contract, it really becomes nonsense”
« In the end, I went through a lot of problems after my departure from PSG, which happened somewhat by force of circumstances. Since at the end of the 2000-2001 season, Luis gave me a different start date from the rest of the squad. We found ourselves with five or six undesirables, with Pierre Ducrocq, Peter Luccin, Aliou Cissé, and we trained with Antoine Kombouaré. When you're no longer allowed to change in the professional locker room while you're under contract, it really becomes stupid. Before being a football coach, you are an educator. Whether in the professional world or the amateur world, it's the same thing. You have to behave and show respect towards the players. No matter the sporting or financial issues. I found it serious to come to this. For me it's a question of education “, he remembers.
