OM. “When I knew he had taken a hit at PSG, I said yes straight away”, Yannick Stopyra’s anecdote about Adrien Rabiot

At the end of the 2000s, the very young Adrien Rabiot landed in Pau after a stint at Manchester City. “Poupou” had chosen to join England rather than… PSG who made eyes at him. “They returned to the Paris region in December but they no longer had accommodationdetails a witness from the time. They therefore left for Pau in January, where they had a family connection.” Contacts have also been renewed with PSG. “Adrien had done it the other way around but the recruiters never lost sight of him“, whispers another interlocutor.

This will be useful for relaunching in 2009.”One day, I received a phone call from Bertrand Reuzeau (then director of the PSG academy), rewinds Yannick Stopyra, then director of the Castelmaurou Hope Center. He said to me: 'We would like you to take on a youngster for next season who will sign with us.' Well, that didn't suit me, I was full. But when he told me that he had taken part in the competition at Clairefontaine and that he had beaten PSG to go to Manchester City, I said yes straight away..”

The former international picks up the Rabiot at the Toulouse Matabiau station and shuttles towards Adrien's future home for a season, the Midi-Pyrénées Hope Center (today included in the new monster region Occitanie). “The contact was good, they are not complicated people. His mother was very pleasant, he was very discreet, but I discovered his great human qualities: I never saw him in excess of anger, he was always accessible, calm, thoughtful and attentive. Sometimes some kids get big heads after coming to a big club, that wasn't his case at all. And on the pitch, when he played, it changed everything. He shone in the middle and made the others shine“, explains one of the men from the 1986 World Cup who has become an experienced trainer in the South-West.

Rabiot, between hard blows and brilliant blows, find the full article here.

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Since Saturday, find the new issue of 1899 Le Mag dedicated to Adrien Rabiot on newsstands. His surprise and sensational arrival, his past, his mother, a colorful character omnipresent in his career… But also the confidences of Jean-Pierre Bernès, the memories of Michel Aliaga, the reunion with Renato Civelli and many others.