This Thursday at 6 p.m. on the lawn of the Fadil Vokrri stadium in Pristina, Alain Giresse will not be humming the
Marseillaise
.
"Gigi", 1984 European champion and unforgettable member of the magic square of the French team alongside Michel Platini, Bernard Genghini (then Luis Fernandez) and Jean Tigana in the 1980s, is about to write a new page. of his long career as coach… of Kosovo.
Appointed on February 23 at the head of the 109th nation in the world, the former midfielder of the Girondins de Bordeaux and Olympique de Marseille, aged 69, is embarking on a completely different context with the reception of Burkina Faso in a friendly match, he who is committed to this adventure until November 2023.
Free since his departure in September 2019 from the Tunisian selection, which he led to fourth place in the African Cup of Nations the same year in Egypt, the eternal scorer during the unforgettable France-Germany of 1982 is can't wait to take on this new...
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