PORTRAIT – At 34, this banking law specialist, blind from birth, won the gold medal at the Games with the Blues.
The big day. This Saturday, the blind football version of the Blues won the Paralympic Games final against Argentina. Among them, Gaël Rivière, blind from birth. A player like any other? Not quite. When he’s not on the pitch in shorts and a football jersey, he frequents the headquarters of major groups in a suit and tie. His job: business lawyer at Bredin-Prat. One of the largest French firms in this field. In recent years, I have worked on the withdrawal of the Rothschild bank from the stock market and the merger of certain Crédit Mutuel funds.”he says.
An exciting job, rather well paid (around 100,000 euros at 34 years old) but with long hours. We can start at 9am and finish at 11pm. That doesn’t bother me: I let myself be carried away by the files. “, he says. This does not prevent him from finding time for his second life: football and more specifically the French blind football team
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