“Willy Sagnol is still someone. Euro 2024: he gently pushes Portugal to the sidelines, while sending the Georgian selection into history, and he celebrates it with the sobriety of a local authority insurer who has just saved his company from having to reimburse a hedge of thujas. Wednesday evening, in the second minute of playing time, the Georgian field nevertheless rises a notch, with the first fertile harvest of a lightning goal. And he, he doesn’t flinch, in his white T-shirt, there.
The official Clovis Cornillac double shunned the team suit, select in selection and transverse stiffness, as much as the team tracksuit bench, for the touch of white of a body sweater. Willy, he is gathered inside, to the limit of vexing the size L, and he defies this moment of sports history by showing more relief on the outside than emotions on the inside. So, while the sports commentary emphasizes the phonemes in “-azde” to tell the Georgian game, we remain glued to the real name from the lawn boss: Willy.
Willy is a bit like the guy from 5e C who has had a moustache since primary school, and who no one bothers, because he looks almost older than the history and geography teacher.
An authentic Frenchman, the boss, with his face that makes you believe that he rather leads to bad humor. When he says hello, we already have the impression that we’re going to get yelled at. It looks like it came straight out of Saint-Étienne, and, in fact, that’s the case. Willy is a bit like the guy from 5e C who has had a moustache since primary school, and who no one bothers, because he looks almost older than the history and geography teacher.
When he played in the French team, among the hip-hop and slender silhouettes, we already imagined him grabbing blue to stick it on in the event of a discrepancy, and cutting more sheet metal than attackers. And this man, improbable in his own way in the etiquette of sport, has just succeeded in making the Georgian people sing. Before that, he helped France win, and also Bayern, as a good full-back, hard at work, capable of grazing his lane non stopwithout complaining.
This Wednesday evening, with his knitting and his expression that could have appeared in a Pagnol, he once again embodied that something different, a little fragile and a little crazy. The Kryptonite of football marketing. That frank and simple thing that we appreciate in a handshake, that tells us what to expect. Under the white jersey, two fingers away from the Kiabi promo, there is resistance to the mirages of sport. A requirement without posturing, connected to the game, nothing more? Willy, if you go to the final, put on your knitting again!
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