In the city of his friend and teammate for a day Karl Olive, mayor of Poissy, the president wet the sky blue jersey for more than an hour, 75 minutes to be precise, with the number 3 on the back, his number fetish, in a defensive midfield position.
"
It is not Maradona but he knows how to play football
", had slipped in
Figaro
Jacques Vendroux, manager of the Varieties Club of France before the meeting.
We won't contradict the 73-year-old journalist.
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Let's face it, Emmanuel Macron did not have the makings of a Ballon d'Or in the midst of former football stars, Christian Karembeu, Robert Pirès, Sonny Anderson or Marcel Desailly.
But, unlike what Gaspard Gantzer, former adviser to François Hollande, said in the book by Le
Monde
journalists
Fabrice Lhomme and Gérard Davet (“
Le traître et le neant
”, Fayard editions), asserting that the founder of LREM n 'had "
never played football
", the president showed that he had, on the contrary, some good bases on the ball.
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