His choice to put Ronaldinho on the bench at Paris Saint-Germain still follows him. Luis Fernandez has once again justified himself on his management of the former Brazilian footballer, who stayed two seasons in the club of the capital (2001-2003).
“I tried everything,” says the only French coach to win a European cup with a French club (1996), who was invited in Team Duga to react to the setbacks of the 2005 Golden Ball with the justice of Paraguay.
“He was a boy who marked me enormously, with his talent, his qualities, what he had in him, what he could achieve on a field. Even the first year in training, if you l “had seen … It was huge. His gestures, his speed, his passing legs … When you see him today, you tell yourself that it’s a shame,” said Luis Fernandez.
A player left to himself the second season
The relationship problems between the two men really started during the second season of “Ronnie” at PSG. Luis Fernandez remembers having had to spend a lot of time trying to frame his player, quick to party: “He is a boy who had no father, like me. He had his mother, his brother and his sister who were there. But they left the second year. They left him alone, with a driver. “
Luis Fernandez thus remembers that “the security people” alerted him “every morning” about the Parisian nights agitated by the prodigy. “When you see former Brazilians who allow themselves to criticize him, that you are told that he stayed all the day before a match in a club …”, deplores the former French international environment, ensuring that he would have preferred to be able to count on Ronaldinho rather than putting him on the bench: “You think you are going to do without a player like that? A player like that, you try to put him back in good moods”.
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