The new goalkeeper of FC Nantes, Anthony Lopes, returned on Sunday to the sad end of his adventure with his long-time club, Olympique Lyonnais. Sidelined, the FCN doorman regrets that his former leaders did not explain themselves directly with him.
The scar is still open. If Anthony Lopes has returned to the Ligue 1 pitches with FC Nantes (and the whistles of the Stéphanois on Sunday at Geoffroy-Guichard), he has not forgotten Olympique Lyonnais. After eleven years in the Lyon cages, the Portuguese goalkeeper (34 years old), a child of the club, was left out of the group. Hard to digest for the supporters and in particular the Bad Gones who recently paid tribute to him (“from Tola Vologe to Décines, 24 years of loyalty, thank you!”), but especially for the main person concerned: “It was clearly the most hardest of my sporting life,” he admitted on Sunday to Canal+.
“Now you’ll have to come and talk to me.”
Disgusted by the treatment of his leaders, Anthony Lopes made noise in an interview given to L'Equipe at the end of September in which he expressed his bitterness and his incomprehension regarding his situation, without showing any tenderness towards his teammate, who had become number 1 in his place, Lucas Perri: “I knew I was going to put myself in danger but I wanted to create a little electric shock to say: 'Now you will have to come and talk to me.' Because it's mine directly, no one from management came to talk to me,” says Anthony Lopes, visibly still affected.
