Henri Emile, ex-assistant coach of Michel Hidalgo in the France team: "Today I lose more than a friend ... I lose my friend and my master. We have spent so many years together. I owe him so much as a colleague and as a man ... I may have prepared myself, since I had his wife on the phone three days ago and we knew it was not going well, I take today his departure in full face. Michel Hidalgo was a trigger for French football on the international scene, with the qualification of the French team for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina then the 82 World Cup in Spain, before the title of 1984 European Champion in Paris . He was the one who launched the euphoric period of French football before the 1998 title… ”.
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