Fabien Barthez arrives at TFC as a consultant to the goalkeepers

Fabien Barthez in the stands of the Parc des Princes during the Ligue 1 match PSG - Monaco, April 15, 2018. -

The news, unexpected, fell this Tuesday in the early evening on the TFC website: Fabien Barthez returns to his training club.

The former 1998 world champion and 2000 European champion, who left Toulouse for Marseille in 1992, is back "from this Wednesday" and that "until the end of the season", indicates the current ninth of Ligue 2. What for?

The Divine Bald (49 years old) will be responsible for "accompanying and developing the progression and training [of] goalkeepers".

Fabien #Barthez will support the Toulouse Football Club teams until the end of the season in a consultant role.

Welcome among us 🙂

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- Toulouse FC (@ToulouseFC) November 10, 2020

The Ariégeois will intervene both with the training center and with the professional group "in agreement and in close collaboration with [the trainer] Patrice Garande, the goalkeeper trainer of the professional group Rudy Riou, as well as the technical director of the Denis Zanko training center ”.

A return to football after the Luzenac adventure

If we are to believe the press release, Barthez does not replace anyone but “enriches” the TFC “with his experience, his technique and his know-how”.

The legendary goalkeeper of the Blues, reconverted as a racing driver, had left the world of football after the aborted epic of Luzenac Ariège Pyrénées, whose rise in Ligue 2 acquired on the ground in spring 2014 had been refused behind the scenes.

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