It was at Notre-Dame de Grâce de Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, that the funeral of Gérard Houllier, the former coach of the Blues, also coach of Lens, PSG, Liverpool took place this Monday morning. or Lyon, and died at 73 in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) a week ago after an aortic operation.
Many personalities from football and sport in general had made an appointment with his wife Isabelle to pay him a last tribute.
Paris, December 21.
Former Arsenal coach Arsène Wenger came to pay tribute to the memory of the former French coach. / Icon Sport / Matthieu Mirville
Former players Bixente Lizarazu, Basile Boli and Laure Boulleau, coach and president of Olympique Lyonnais, Rudi Garcia and Jean-Michel Aulas, former Arsenal coach Arsène Wenger, former president of Lens Gervais Martel , or the former tennis player Fabrice Santoro were present in the Parisian church.
Noël Le Graët, the president of the French Federation and Frédéric Thiriez, candidate for the presidency of the FFF, had also made the trip.