He’s a big name in French football. From now on, this name of a child of the country, of a child of Guadeloupe, will be engraved for eternity in Sainte-Anne, the town of his birth and of his heart.
After two refusals to two former municipalities, led by Aldo Blaise and Christian Baptiste, the former glory of French football Marius Trésor ended up taking the plunge, as he explains with humor.
Both times, I said no because, for me, giving your name to a stadium was done when the person had died so, as I wanted to live a long time, I said to myself, we’re going to wait some more A little
Friends convinced him that it would be a very good thing. “And when I see the boys who accompanied me on this adventure, I don’t regret it.”
Three days after his 75th birthday
This Saturday, three days after his 75th birthday and until Monday, Marius Trésor will indeed be celebrated as it should be, on the Juventus pitch in Sainte-Anne, where he took his first steps.
-With his “friends” as he calls them, the Tigana, Giresse, Stopyra and others Pires, Karembeu, Govou, Janvion, Couriol (etc…) of the Variétés Club de France, he will participate in a gala match with former Juventus players.
56 years after leaving his native islandin 1969, for an exceptional career, which would lead the athletic central defender to Race to Ajaccioat theMarseille Olympic and to Girondins de Bordeaux.
But, above all, in the French team (65 caps), with appointment as captain in 1976.
I felt a certain pride because I was one of the first West Indians to play for the French team. It happened very quickly, two years after my arrival. I saw the impact it had on the West Indians when I was named captain and I returned here, to Guadeloupe. I felt like a different man. People no longer recognized me,” admits the man who has always stood out for his modesty.
