During the last Coupe de France meeting against Rennes, everyone was taken a little by surprise, since
Pierrot Labat disappeared a few hours ago. Thus, nothing could be prepared to pay him the tribute he deserved.
This Saturday against Locminé, for the return of the National 2 championship, the Club au Scapulaire, among others, will pay him a tribute certainly worthy of the person he was, with a fictitious kick-off, but also probably tifos planned by the supporters.
In 2018, he spoke to Girondins4Ever. Asked if he ever intended to stop coaching, he answered something that, in the end, sounded good to him.
“No, the day I stop I will no longer be able to walk. “Train”, if you like, the word is a bit strong for me. The problem currently is explaining to people that what I have done is not useful, but it is essential. Football has been taken a little too much by physical problems, by physical trainers, in terms of bodybuilding. Bodybuilding has distorted the players. Of course physicality is necessary, but if you don't have the ball, it's useless. Sport, training, is technique, tactics, physical and mental. In technique, there are scales, it’s a whole. Support, etc., is everything that is done with the ball. The physical aspect helps you to run, to become a little more powerful, to climb higher, but there is another element, it is the mental aspect. If you don't have that, you can't do anything. This is my philosophy on the matter. And that's why at the Girondins de Bordeaux, as long as I'm there, I will try to tell the educators how and what to do. I won't do any more demonstrations, because after a while you no longer have the flexibility. I replace the demonstration with the video. You show or demonstrate. I can no longer demonstrate, so I show.”
Farewell, and thank you, Pierrot!
