It is a very moved Roland Romeyer who commented on the death of Robert Herbin, emblematic player and coach of AS Saint-Etienne, Tuesday noon on Europe 1. The co-president of ASSE explained what he counted to pay tribute "to the dimension of the football monument that has just disappeared".
"We are going to do as we did previously for friends, we renamed a stadium at l'Etrat for Aimé Jacquet, another synthetic stadium was renamed Georges Berretta. There, it will not be a stadium, it will be the center of life, the center of the State, which we will remind of Robert Herbin sports center. We will have a great event and a great inauguration when we can do so, given this damn virus, "he explained. .
"The man of renewal, not just ASSE"
Earlier on Europe 1, the other co-president of AS Saint-Etienne Bernard Caiazzo had also paid tribute to the "Sphinx": "He is one of the most important characters in ASSE. the man of renewal, not only from ASSE, but from French football ".
"These are men like him who made us proud thanks to results and international recognition. If France is one of the great nations of football, it owes a lot to men like Robert Herbin," said Bernard Caiazzo.
Player then technician of the Greens, the one who had won the nickname "Sphinx" presented the most beautiful prize list of French football where only missing the European Cup, for lack of having won on the bench of Greens the famous final of 1976 of " square posts ". "Hospitalized for several days, he died on April 27 (...) dropped by his heart," reported the regional newspaper Le Progrès on its website.
Robert Herbin had been hospitalized since last Tuesday at the CHU de Saint-Étienne for serious heart and lung failure, unrelated to the epidemic of new coronavirus.