Raymond Domenech was not born overnight.
And at 68, it is not the old trainer that you will learn to make faces.
While he is preparing to resume his place on a sidelines 27 years after his last club experience, on the side of Lyon, the former coach of the Blues knew his first mission.
Or rather his first imperative: to clear the field with the media with which he maintained, during his tenure as coach, at least conflicting relations.
Everyone remembers the famous "
smell of blood
" after a setback in Austria in September 2008, two years before an equally "famous" 2010 World Cup where the French team will hit rock bottom as never in its history .
After the setback in Austria (3-1), the coach even added, to illustrate his relations with the press at the time: "
I want to say that I am happy with one thing: the emergency laws and the guillotine no longer exist otherwise some of you
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