The coach of the French football team paid tribute to his distant predecessor Michel Hidalgo, who died Thursday at the age of 87. DD retains a man of deep kindness and extreme kindness.
"My adolescence, like that of many French people of my generation, was marked by the sparkling performances of" his "French team, from the qualification for the 1978 World Cup, which our football had been waiting for 12 years, until the brilliant victory at Euro 1984 ", greeted in a press release the boss of the 2018 world champions who learned with" a lot of sadness "the disappearance of Hidalgo, who died at his home in Marseille on Thursday early in the afternoon midday.
Noël Le Graët also paid tribute to Hidalgo
"On a more personal note, I had the chance and the privilege of getting to know Michel during my two visits to Olympique de Marseille, as a player and then as a coach (Hidalgo worked as general manager). In good and bad times, Michel has always shown great kindness towards me. He was a deeply nice man. Beyond his technical skills, it is also the memory of his kindness that I want to retain, "continued the 1998 world champion.
The president of the French Football Federation (FFF) Noël Le Graët had paid tribute to him earlier one of "one of the biggest names in French football". "Through his game philosophy, his personality, his exemplary passion, he has contributed to the influence of our sport on the international level and to its popularity in France," the FFF leader said in a press release.
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