the crazy anecdote of Djibril Cissé on his first summons

Djibril Cissé could have ruined his first call-up to the French team. Passing through Zack Nani's ZERL show, the former Blues striker (41 caps, 9 goals) delivered a surprising anecdote about his first call-up to the A. ” It's crazy how I learn it. One afternoon, I was taking a nap, Henri Émile (intendant of the French team) called me. I'm sleeping, it wakes me up, I answer, he says to me: 'yes, it's Henri Émile', I say to him 'yeah, yeah okay' and I hung up on him. I thought it was a joke, I said to myself, I'm 20-21 years old, the guy from the France team is calling me, if it was true, he would have come through the club, it was weird The thing, I didn't believe it at all. I go back to my nap, he calls me back and explains: 'it's really Henri Émile, we want you to come for an internship in Tignes', and bam, I hang up a second time », remembers the former Liverpool player, hilarious.

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It is finally Guy Roux who will come to set the record straight for the former OM and AJ Auxerre striker. “ I arrive in the coach's office, he says to me: 'Is this how I raised you? Henri Émile calls you twice and you hang up on him!' There, I start thinking, I wonder if I haven't screwed everything up. We call Henri-Émile back with the coach and I apologize flatly. I explain to him that for me, it was a shock, and finally, I left for Tignes with the group », concluded the man who would end up playing in the 2002 World Cup, a few months later.