Trained at Téfécé, Fabien Barthez is now a temporary consultant for the club in the South West of France.
During an interview with L'Equipe, the former bulwark of the Blues with 87 selections returns to the position he knows best, and which has become too "
stereotypical
" today for his taste.
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I think football has gone in the wrong direction.
Over the past five or six years, this game has changed a lot tactically and this has had a huge impact on the goalkeeper position
," says Fabien Barthez before explaining his point: "
All goalkeepers are alike, they all play the same way, they all react the same way, it has become completely stereotyped.
Today, a goalkeeper must be 1.92m, take up space in the goal and be good with his feet.
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An evolution of the position regretted by the 1998 world champion, which serves both the doorman and his team according to him.
Fabien Barthez also evokes the too strong competition now installed between several goals of the same team.
He returns in particular to the situation at Paris Saint-Germain where Gigi Donnarumma and Keylor Navas share the Parisian goal in turn.
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I adore
him, confides the French about the young Italian doorman.
I have been watching his performances for a long time and, for me, Benzema is at fault.
But, on this one, he also lacked humility.
But, in a way, what happened to him makes sense.
He wins the Euro, he is full of confidence, he arrives in Paris and we put him in competition with Navas
.
A regrettable situation for the whole of PSG according to the titular goalkeeper at the Blues during the victory during Euro 2000, who asks for an explanation from Mauricio Pochettino.
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What message are you sending to your keepers?
What psychological dispositions do you place them in?
Who do you really trust for big dates?
What do outfield players say to each other?
You instill doubt in everyone.
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