“We’ve been talking regularly to pray for eight years”: chaplain Joël Thibault, Oliver Giroud’s lucky star. The meeting between Stade Rennes and AC Milan during the Europa League play-offs promises to be electric.

To get there, Olivier Giroud, who plays in the Italian ranks, is counting on his lucky star, chaplain. “We always manage to find an hour, an hour and a half in the somewhat dead time to see each other,” explains the pastor in Rennes.