It is a life far from the rhinestones and glitter that Yoann Gourcuff and Karine Ferri have chosen for their three children, Maël (8 years old), Claudia (6 years old) and Sasha (1 year old). If some former footballers wish to continue to make a living from their passion for their sport, whether as a coach, like Zinedine Zidane, or in the media, like Bixente Lizarazu, the former Olympic player Lyonnais, decided to return to where it all began for him. It is near Ploemeur, in Morbihan, where he was born, that the 38-year-old athlete chose to settle down with the woman he married in 2019.
In this coastal town of 18,000 inhabitants, the one who was intimidated by a star of the Blues, who made him lose all his means at the time when he played, has always been his habits since he “grew up in the Guermeur district, surrounded by the affection of his mother and father, with whom he loved playing VHS tapes of Pelé and those of Johan Cruyff's Barça on a loop”as described The Teamin a long portrait dedicated to the Breton. This is where the couple decided to settle in a “white house, hidden in a thick forest of pine, oak and beech”as described by our colleagues, who went to the site and were able to see that the residence is “positioned back from the road” with “a gray Washington casement gate” which prohibits access to the property.
Three and a half hectares of land and a gym
-Karine Ferri and Yoann Gourcuff, who shared a rare photo of their little Claudia to celebrate her 6th birthday last year, own a plot of land of three and a half hectares, “fully fenced”. Inside, we find a “residence of 300 m2” with all modern comforts and even more. In this house, purchased “a May 2008to Georges Guenoum, president of FC Lorient in the 80s and 90s”the star couple and their children can enjoy a pool and a tennis courtas well as a gym built by the 42-year-old sportsman and presenter.
“For Yoann, it’s Brittany first and a visceral attachment to Ploemeur. It's something deep about him. This house allows him to live alone with his family and isolated”summarizes Jacky Guégan, a close friend of the Gourcuff family, to our colleagues at The Team. Karine Ferri and Yoann Gourcuff, also owners of a multi-million dream house in the South, seem to have found their happiness in Brittany, where the former footballer was born and now wishes to raise his children.
