“It’s obviously touching”. On the phone, Alain Giresse seemed moved. And for good reason: after the announcement of the change of name of the Matmut Atlantique stadium On December 5, we asked you to give the name you wanted to see for the Girondins stadium. With almost 20% of the votes (out of more than 300 responses), the former French international came first in the survey launched by France Bleu Gironde on the site and on Facebook.
“Having his name inscribed on such a stadium cannot leave me indifferent.” After around fifteen years spent in the Bordeaux club between the 70s and 80s, Alain Giresse has not been forgotten by the supporters. “If people mention my name it’s because they want it, because they want it. It’s to please me! Obviously it challenges me, but it challenges me in a good way,” he reacts on France Bleu Gironde.
Giresse in front of René Gallice
Among the other suggestions, Girondins fans did not lack imagination. Some serious proposals came back regularly, such as Zinédine Zidane, Aimé Jacquet or René Gallice (13% of the votes). History buffs also joined in the fun: the “Burdigala Stadium”, or the “Stade Aliénor-d’Aquitaine”. In the responses, only a woman’s name: the Manon-Cormier stadium. She is a Bordeaux feminist lawyer and writer, resistant and deported, who died on her return from the Mauthausen camp in 1945.
But many supporters preferred above all to make fun of the club’s situation: a lot of “Stade Gérard-Lopez”, if not “Le Gouffre” or “le Stade de la Lose”.
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