In the applause meter, he was first on par with coach Didier Deschamps. The Bernard Giroux stadium, with record attendance (by invitation), duly welcomed this Wednesday afternoon in Plaisir (Yvelines) the presence of Emmanuel Macron with crampons on his feet. The Head of State was there at the invitation of the Variétés Club de France for a charity match.
In a match played at the pace of senators, the President of the Republic, a converted footballer, lost his first ball but tried hard. Like this heel in front of Ciryl Gane, the MMA champion. He ran a lot too. With a smile on his face, he also caused the first foul of the match on El Hadji Diouf (70 caps with Senegal), guilty of a crime of lèse-majesté with this little bridge over the head of state.
“Frankly, he’s not bad,” analyzes Nour, 15, who came from Issou at the invitation of the Mantes-la-Jolie hospital. “Yeah, he tries a lot of things, that’s something. He’s not the best player but he fights,” agrees his friend Adam. The two teenagers only have eyes for the stars of the day, the Ivorian Didier Drogba (OM, Chelsea) or the Belgian Eden Hazard, the ex-Lille player who moved to Real Madrid. “For me, the star is Arsène Wenger, he has total respect…”
Joséphine Kollmannsberger, the mayor of Plaisir, also appreciated the show. Does she have any advice to give to the head of state? “Advice, no, but a shopping list and I intend to present it to him,” smiles the elected LR, very happy to offer such a poster to the youth of her city. The charity match, which brought in 57,500 euros for the “Yellow Pieces” operation, was played under the gaze of many young people from the neighboring Valibout district, which was surrounded very early on by a large police presence.
As in October 2021, not far from here near Poissy this time, Emmanuel Macron also scored his penalty to close the victory (5-3) for his team. A shot from the inside of the right foot which caught goalkeeper Nathanaël Gavant (ex-Drancy) on the wrong foot. “He ran a lot without the ball, monitored the midfield well, always had one eye left and right, but was a little lost from time to time,” emphasizes Philippe, who came from Essonne. OK, there is his penalty but there should have been one against him in the area but there was no Var. »
At the final whistle, the Head of State took the time to greet the stands and multiplied the selfies. Above all, he left after offering his signed jersey to the young licensees of FO Plaisir. A gesture from the president.
