2023-09-24 09:50:48
He paces his right flank at a rate of 12 km per match, at the same rate as his team swallows up the efforts and the results. Neo-Red Devil, he evokes Jérémie Doku, his broken love for Standard, Kevin Denkey, chicken pasta, Domenico Tedesco, high-intensity sprints, Roberto Martinez, the inverted Club Bruges logo and Arthur Vermeeren. But also the football raptors, Kingsley Coman, the Warleson barbecues, the Red Bull school, the Play-Offs 1, Kyle Walker, the hand vacuum cleaner and the Union Saint-Gilloise. And above all… beet juice. Hugo Siquet (Cercle Bruges) passes ” On The Grill “.
Stade Breydel smells of grilled meat: when we arrive, a barbecue attendant turns the barbecue under a smoky arbor. It is… Warleson, the Brazilian goalkeeper of Cercle who plays the chef. And in front of his grill, his teammates line up after morning training.
” It’s a tradition when a player celebrates his birthday: he chooses the meal… and I can tell you that Warleson’s Brazilian recipes are delicious! “s’esclaffe Hugo Siquet, when starting the interview. ” It’s typical of the Circle: we’re a real family, the average age is very young and despite the many nationalities, there are no clans like I experienced at Standard. No one thinks they’re a star here… We have PlayStation sessions, we go to restaurants together, we go for walks in Knokke… This is also what makes a team like Union Saint-Gilloise so successful : relaxation, group spirit. We don’t put pressure on ourselves. There is just this historic rivalry with Club Bruges, which means that we cannot pronounce the word here CLUB “. We are no longer giving fines for this, as before, but it remains sensitive… We even give you the thought if you come dressed in blue and/or black… We have here a table with the ranking and the championship calendar, where the Club logo is systematically… upside down. (He is laughing) It’s rather good-natured. But I understand that we take into account the sensitivity of the supporter. It’s a bit the same with Standard and Anderlecht. (Editor’s note: before signing for Cercle, Siquet had received an offer from Anderlecht…) As I have often said, I am and will remain attached to Standard, which is the club of my heart. There are players in the past who went from Sclessin to Brussels, and that was their right, but for me it’s just not possible. It is neither in my values nor in my culture. So I preferred not to sign there and to stick to my principles: when I say something, it’s not empty words. (sic) And besides, the Standard supporters are grateful to me because each time I have returned there, they have welcomed me very well. “
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