He had never set foot on the lawn of the Allianz Riviera before.
Inaugurated on September 22, 2013, the stadium was to be his new playground. Only, three months earlier, Kévin Anin was the victim of a terrible car accident putting an end to his promising career and sending him into a wheelchair .
This Sunday, the former defensive midfielder, now 35 years old, trained in Le Havre and passed through Sochaux before landing in Nice, kicked off the shock of the 3rd day of L1 against Marseille .
Ovationed by the Riviera public, he had exchanged a few minutes earlier with some supporters in the stadium.
"I want to play," he confided to our colleagues from Nice Matin on his arrival at the stadium.
Seriously injured in a car accident in 2013, Kévin Anin, former @ ogcnice player was applauded by the whole stadium 🏟️👏!
#OGCNOM pic.twitter.com/jxCeJS91Wk
- Ligue 1 Uber Eats (@ Ligue1UberEats) August 22, 2021
“The eternal N ° 17 of the Gym, Kévin Anin, is back home,” OGC Nice said on his Twitter account. 17 is also the minute in which the Rouge et Noir fans also pay tribute in every home game to their former player.
The fate of Kévin Anin (85 matches in L1) changed on June 4, 2013 on a road in Seine-Maritime, during a round trip Le Havre-Amsterdam with friends and his cousin.
After two rolls, the young prospect of the Aiglons is ejected from the back of the cockpit and breaks his spine.
Plunged for more than ten days in an artificial coma, he learns when he wakes up that he will never regain control of his legs.
“(When getting into the car) Me, I say to myself: 'Anyway, if we have a fart', I'm not going to feel it, I'm sleeping '.
I said that, brother.
It was written.
It had to happen, ”he told the magazine in 2016.
So Foot.
The eternal N ° 1️⃣7️⃣ of the Gym, Kévin Anin, is back home ❤️ #OGCNOM #KevinUnoDiNoi pic.twitter.com/B4pPfsLOUQ
- OGC Nice (@ogcnice) August 22, 2021
The driver - without a license - of the car in which Kévin Anin was installed was sentenced in October 2016 to 18 months in prison by the Dieppe Criminal Court.
