This match, Mickaël Robin (35) has checked it on his agenda for some time. The goalkeeper from Créteil, who is hosting PSG this Sunday afternoon (3:20 p.m.), has indeed some hooks with some players in the capital.
In Montpellier, he played with the Luka and Nikola Karabatic, having even shared the Barcelona jersey with the latter for a few months. It was also in Catalonia that he met Viran Morros in 2014. Finally, he shares functions with Vincent Gérard within the Association of Professional Handball Players (AJPH), the players’ union. For an hour, however, he ensures that he does not give them any gifts.
Alone acquitted in the case of rigged bets
After having made the best days of Sélestat and Chambéry, Robin, left Savoy with the title of best goalkeeper of D1, to put down his bags in 2010 at the great Montpellier, the most successful club in France. For nearly four seasons, the Alsatian has known everything there. The good one, with on the sporting level three titles of champion of France and six national cups.
The worst also, with a serious scooter accident in 2011 which kept him off the field for many months. During his resumption match a year later, he found himself involved in the affair of rigged bets during a championship match against Cesson-Rennes. Indicted along with eight other players (including the Karabatic brothers), he is the only one to have been acquitted.
Today, if he no longer wants to talk about this dark affair which has plagued the small world of hand (“It’s not a good memory and it is no longer present in my mind”) the one who shares the cage cristolienne with Dylan Be nevertheless kept excellent relations with his former team-mates, now in the capital.
Positive for Covid-19 in September
“It’s always a pleasure to play against your friends,” Robin smiles. With Luka, we are even more motivated when the game has started! Viran is a very good company person, with whom we like to share naturally. With Vincent, we call each other every week, both being members of the AJPH executive committee. The rivalry between goalkeepers is always a small game in the game … My only regret is not having Nikola in front. Last year, we jostled them until “the machine” came into play. I would have liked to have my little revenge! “
Sportingly, Robin remains lucid and has trouble imagining the Parisian leader leaving his neighbor’s home with anything other than victory: “Paris is an ogre, we have very little chance of winning,” says the one who graduated from physiotherapy the year past. It will not prevent me from taking maximum pleasure. I put a little more into perspective since I had the Covid in September. Every day I had a new symptom, from strong headaches to diarrhea. It was far from funny. I realized that this virus is far from trivial. From now on, I am convinced that it is necessary to know how to appreciate the simple things. “
