On December 20, 1990, in Oignies, the history of coal in Nord-Pas-de-Calais ended.
Florian Sotoca has no memory of it.
And for good reason, he was not yet two months old.
But the Lens striker (5 goals, 2 assists),
only son
of a mother employed on motorway tolls and a father, a furniture assembler, then an employee of a DIY company, fits perfectly with the values of a region where the notions of hard work and resilience are carried to a high degree of expression.
Dubbed by the Artesian public, the native of Narbonne, who previously passed through Martigues, Béziers or Grenoble, opened his heart and confided in himself for nearly twenty minutes.
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