As part of the release this Wednesday on Netflix of a documentary on Nicolas Anelka entitled "the misunderstood", the footballer, retired since 2015, returned in an interview with the Parisian on the Knysna crisis and his words in the locker room at half-time for Mexico-France during the 2010 World Cup, against Raymond Domenech. An exchange that had caused the exclusion of the player from the France group and the famous training strike.
"These were words from the locker room and should stay there"
Nicolas anelka"What happened that day has happened millions of times in a football locker room," said the former PSG, Arsenal and Real Madrid striker. Already, when you claim to be a world-class player, you have to have character. What I said that day (to Domenech) was: " Just make her your shitty team" . You must also understand that this reaction, very classic in a locker room, was out of a spirit of competition and to rectify certain things. They were locker room words and had to stay there. Not only, they went out but it was not the right ones ("Go fuck yourself, you dirty son of a bitch", according to L'Equipe , Ed) ".
"If we ran into each other by chance, I think we could discuss"
Nicolas Anelka on Raymond Domenech“I have no resentment (towards Raymond Domenech) and know that before Knysna, we really had very good relations. Eh yes ! But I haven't spoken to him since. I resent her a little when her mother publicly declared that she did not accept my "insults". Him, he knew that was not it and should have said it then. A mother's word touches me and there, Raymond should have spoken. But if we ran into each other by chance, I think we could discuss, ”concludes an Anelka, now 41 years old and calm.
Anelka's first goal with PSG against Lens in September 1996 (4-0)
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