In the show “Ballon, Main, Corps”, the former Girondins de Bordeaux winger, Nicolas Maurice-Belayconfided that his oldest son was playing today in Monaco, and that he had a little peculiarity compared to him.
“The greatest was at the Girondins when he was young. Afterwards, there is a ‘Clairefontaine’ here, it is the Pôle Espoirs de Talence. He had made the entrance there, and as he went through the rounds, they took him. In the end, we left Bordeaux, Monaco came to sign him, and that’s it. […] He’s not left-handed but right-handed, and as I told him that I was losing €200,000 per month because I wasn’t hitting enough crates, I put him at center forward (laughs). That’s where it’s happening (laughs).”
On the other hand, due to his personality, NMB sometimes has difficulty seeing his son being too individualistic, like when he hits from a tight angle.
“He’s always been a striker, and now he’s a bit more of a winger. When he hit in front of two defenders and shot them in the stomach, I said ‘look at that nag!’. I was freaking out… But it was fun! You heard ‘he has instinct’. Honestly, you wonder what world you live in… Do you know what I was doing? When I started to start the engine and the windows were closed, it took a beating, I tell you (laughs) […] So, no, I’m not going to let him make the same mistakes as me, because the selfishness he has as a striker will be good. You can’t blame him for that, because he’s always been a very efficient person. But at some point, there is his connection to the game that needs to be improved. That’s just my opinion… Afterwards, maybe I’ll hear that he’s very good in the collective, but maybe also that we won’t have the same scale of requirements.”
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