The goalkeeper of the French team signed for Montpellier in 1995. A cerebral and solitary player, he integrated to the point of becoming deputy director of the training center. Before disappearing too suddenly in 2020.
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Condensing half a century of history into 84 pages. This is the challenge taken up by the sports editorial staff of Midi Libre in this special issue on the 50th anniversary of the MHSC. Available on newsstands on December 11 for only 5 euros, this glossy magazine will make you relive the great moments in the history of the Montpellier club through our “50” who made the MHSC. Players, coaches and builders, obviously, starting with this “Nicollin Saga”, told by Laurent and Colette, the wife of the late Loulou. A special issue full of anecdotes and unpublished photos with an exclusive interview with Olivier Giroud.
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Bruno Martini and Montpellier are the marriage of water and fire. In 1995, when the international goalkeeper (31 caps) went into exile from Auxerre, with a broken heart and a chewed knee, La Paillade saw the twilight of his scoundrel years.
Cerebral, solitary and chess player, Martini only speaks about what he knows. Montpellier embraces Loulou’s moods more than ever, lives by instinct, multiplies his poker moves, hits the belote and tells incredible stories, full of bad faith.
Cartesian and picky man
“Bruno, conscientious and meticulous, was surprised by certain things”euphemizes Pascal Baills, one of the memories of Montpellier.
For his first European match with Montpellier, against Sporting Portugal of Lisbon (1-1, 1-0) in September 1996, Loulou requested a magician and forced his team to wear yellow jerseys, vectors of “positive waves”. Bet lost.
Deputy director of the training center
Bruno Martini lives the nightmare of the Vélodrome (5-4) against OM before ending his playing career one evening in defeat in Monaco. Coach of the goalkeepers of the French team, this Cartesian man, punctilious and precise, is setting up the goalkeeper coaching diploma. Shadow work of a man with a temperament as serious as his voice.
Victim of a stroke in 2020
Returning to Montpellier in 2013, as deputy director of the training center, he had experience on the sidelines alongside Pascal Baills. A painful one-month break for this caring man with traumatic stress.
On October 12, 2020, Bruno Martini suffered a stroke in Grammont. On the ground of an unwavering passion. Neither Jonathan Llorente nor Pascal Baills can revive him. He died a week later. And plunges the entire Hérault club into silent sorrow.
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