Benoît Trémoulinas: “When I was a kid at the Girondins at 8 years old, we trained with the Milan jersey, we arrived, we laughed, we ate the four quarters afterwards…”

In Greg's Team, Benoît Trémoulinasformer defender of
Girondins de Bordeaux and today a consultant, spoke out following incidents that occurred in the amateur world.
Last week in Colomiers, two club educators had their car set on fire in front of their homes, 45 minutes apart, in two communities 30 kilometers apart. It could be that this was the work of parents of young people under the age of 11, whose children had been excluded before a football tournament. The club has suspended its activities until November 11.

This is not the first time that incidents have occurred in clubs in recent months, including attacks on educators in youth categories. This phenomenon is named after parents with a “Mbappé Project”, parents blinded by the success of Kylian Mbappé and his family, wishing to reproduce the same pattern with their child for profit.

The subject was: “Mbappé Project”: The new scourge

« The problem is that today there are too many economic issues. We are plagued by money today, because what do young people see? I'm talking about when I was a chick. When I was in school, there weren't the networks, there wasn't all that, so we weren't allowed to see behind the scenes a bit. Today we see Mbappé on all the posters in Paris. We now know the amounts they earn since upon signing in Madrid, the next day we know exactly the salary he will take, we know exactly what he sells, what he will take on the side too. This is almost double or even triple his salary. All the little ones know about it today. There is a reality, which is that today, young people who are in a training center earn a lot more money than us at 20! That's what the problem is today, it's just a question of sorrel. Today it is the sorrel that plagues football when they are little. […] In my time, to make a long story short, from time to time there were parents who bickered a little because he hadn't called offside, etc., but there wasn't all that. For a small example, we used to be far from all that. When I was a kid at the Girondins at 8 years old, we trained with the Milan jersey, we arrived, we laughed, we ate the four quarter afterwards… Today everything is programmed, that is to say that the little ones have two or three training sessions per week even though they are only 7 years old. We only had one and the second was optional. »

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