With Baptiste Deprez
It is the story of love at first sight.
Of a choice of career and life which could have made it disappear from the radars of football with the media beam too often limited to the Old Continent.
For almost six years, the roars of André-Pierre Gignac have resonated well beyond Mexico where the French striker of the Monterrey Tigers lives a real golden exile.
A thousand leagues from other so-called "exotic" destinations, at random Qatar, where it is preparing to play in the final of the Club World Cup this Thursday against Bayern Munich (7 pm).
While playing in Doha or Al-Rayyan is often synonymous with highly paid early retirement for a football without pressure and without passion, Gignac still experiences, at 35 years old, the great thrill every time he puts on the "azul y oro" jersey. (blue and gold) of the Tigers and that the 42,000 aficionados of the Estadio Universitario howl loudly
"Guignac"
- thus they pronounce his name, on
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