Le Figaro
was able to follow the faithful assistant to the coach of the world football champions, before the Covid-19 crisis.
And thus understand how a French team is made up.
Appointment is given at 5:15 p.m., in the lobby of the London hotel, with the Breton technician, winner of Euro 2000 alongside Roger Lemerre and world champion in 2018 with Didier Deschamps.
Impeccable midnight blue suit, white and odd seasonal shirt, Guy Stephan arrives incognito to meet us before the planned forty-five minute journey to Stamford Bridge, the theater of the evening.
He comes directly from Nice, he who lives in Mougins, on the Côte d'Azur, not far from the home of the coach.
In the staff of the Blues, he is the assistant who makes the most trips to observe each season the fifty internationals who appear on the radars of the selection.
In addition to the meetings he watches each week, namely more than a fortnight.
It is "the eye" of the boss of the world champions.
"
From Friday to Sunday evening, I have the iPad and the TV plugged in, sometimes with three games at the same time.
My wife knows you can't move too much on the weekends.
She's been here for forty years, she still supports me
, ”he smiles cheerfully.
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