Stade Brestois midfielder Paul Lasne will publish his first book, a collection of short texts written during confinement.

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  • Paul Lasne took advantage of the confinement of March and the end of the championship to start writing.

  • The Stade Brestois midfielder publishes "MurMures", a collection of short texts written during the first confinement.

  • The footballer recounts with poetry his daily life confined to his wife and his two young children.

“Today, in the twists and turns of the organic department, a rumor creeps between two pots of tomato sauce.

Containment would be for tomorrow.

A word of dread.

I cross the stands and graft on it an anguish of the end of the world, under the butcher's window between two hams, or on all those shiny scales and pearly flesh at the fishmonger.

My grid on wheels gets carried away, I slip past the corridor of pleasures, grab a bar of chocolate, on the lookout for comfort in this rising tension.

By the time he wrote his words, Paul Lasne had no idea that they would one day be published.

This March day, the Stade Brestois footballer discovered like all of France that he should be subject to strict confinement.

Witnessing a scene of chaos at the supermarket, he could not help writing a few words about it on his return home.

Ten months later, the midfielder trained at the Girondins de Bordeaux found his way back to the stadiums and will host Stade Rennais for a derby without an audience this Sunday at 1 p.m.

In two weeks, he will play on another ground to defend his first work, titled

MurMures

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Through 37 short texts, he retraces his very personal vision of a confinement spent in his house in Brest with his wife Laura and his two children Louise and Victor, aged 3 and 4.

“With them, the days were intense but every day, I took an hour and a half to write, when they were napping.

That's why the texts are short.

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Paul Lasne, the two facets 🙂



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Deprived of training and matches, he fell in love with this new activity.

"It became a habit, it became my daily training," said the midfielder.

Very quickly, Paul Lasne understood that he nourished the desire to make a book about it.

His father, a writer, opened the door to his small publishing house Le Tiers Livre.

“He did not intervene at all on the merits.

This book, it belongs to me ”, corrects immediately the former player of Montpellier.

"We are often assimilated to Playstation players"

With his polished writing and his recent passion for literature, Paul Lasne is well aware that he contrasts with the usual image of the footballer.

He assumes and defends his environment, as he does every weekend on the lawns of Ligue 1. “Of course I'm not going where we expect football players.

We are often assimilated to Playstation players.

There are many, especially among young people.

I have been, but growing up, we evolve, we change.

I know lots of players who have their passion outside of football but nobody talks about it, ”explains the player who turns 32 this Saturday.

In his book, Paul Lasne likes to describe with poetry his small daily activities.

The puzzle, jogging in the forest, his first experience as a hairdresser or the performances of his children on their balance bike.

This new passion for writing and this forced confinement have visibly changed his outlook on life and on his sport.

"The stress lived in me, with its needles which turned on my wrist, the pressure of the trade, from head to toe, the performance to be sought every day and I forgot by that the essential pleasures", he writes in his short story called

Introspection

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“It was difficult to wean off the adrenaline from games because it's like a drug.

All footballers have it.

But this imposed break allowed me to breathe, to take a step back, to see where the essential was.

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At the end of the contract but without stress

To approach the matches, Paul Lasne has the feeling of being "more liberated".

"It does not prevent the performance but it allows to take a height of view".

At the end of the contract in June, the Brest midfielder still does not know if he will continue his career in Finistère.

"I prefer not to look too far because we don't know where we are going".

On Sunday, he will take over the management of Francis Le Blé.

Concentrated, but calm.

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