On February 13, 2016, Serge Aurier had posted a video on the Périscope application in which he had treated his coach Laurent Blanc as a "fiotte" and had attacked some of his teammates at Paris SG. Four years after the facts, the Ivorian international returned to this episode in an interview with France Football . At the time, this story had earned him the wrath of public opinion, but he admits that he was not aware of what he was doing: “It is as if an application was released today. Like everyone else, we discover it, we download it, we put it on and we don't know what's going on. The video lasted more than two hours! But people took ten minutes. Not even ! (…) I am not focused because I play PlayStation. He ( his friend Mamadou Doucouré, Ndrl ) is on his computer playing Football Manager and he is connected to his phone. I answer questions, I don't even calculate. We talked, we laughed. ”
"What hurts me the most is that it affected my family more than I did"
Unfortunately, this story had consequences, for him but also for his loved ones. “My family struggled to cash in, especially my mother who fell ill for a long time. What hurt me the most was that it affected my family more than I did, "he explains to the football magazine, before adding:" I was all alone in the middle of a crowd throwing stones at me. There was no one to save me. It was just me. ”
“In this team, there weren't many who loved the jersey like me. The love of Paris like me "
Even today, when the name of Serge Aurier is mentioned, everyone remembers the Périscope affair, and the right side of Tottenham thinks "that it will never end". This story even forced him to leave PSG a year later, his club at heart: “In this team, there were not many who had the love of the jersey like me. The love of Paris like me. I was proud to play in my city, proud of the importance that I started to take on. I was so happy that nothing could stop me. The fact that all this disgusted me to the point of leaving is a shame, "he regrets.
In this interview with France Football , Serge Aurier also spoke of his performances with Tottenham, where he will face Leipzig in the knockout stages of the Champions League on Wednesday. "Today, I am calm. (…) In addition, things are going well in football. I'm in a good mood. They appreciate me, I make the season that it takes, I hope even better to finish so that it is complete ", he assures, before confiding" My biggest gift would be to win the League of Champions. It's the only trophy that will make me cry. ”
And when José Mourinho, his coach with the Spurs, is mentioned, he admits that he gets along well with him: “It's difficult for a coach not to love me because I work. You can never say that I am lazy and question my worker mentality. He likes people like me, who are really true. (…) He knows that I'm not cheating, that he can talk about everything with me. I'll tell her the truth. I don't think he likes hiding players. ”
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