2024-02-12 11:28:58
It’s only February but the award for the most unlikely context for a sports interview in 2024 is already worth returning to West France. Three days before the Europa League play-off between AC Milan and Stade Rennais, Thursday (9 p.m.), the daily offers a cross-interview carried out by video between the Blues and Rossoneri striker Olivier Giroud and… his Pastor Joël Thibault, based in Rennes.
Evangelical Protestant pastor of the Espérance des Nations church, he has served as a spiritual guide for Olivier Giroud, since their meeting in 2016 in Clairefontaine. The two friends have already planned to see each other the day before the return match in Brittany. “It will be nice to come back to France, and Rennes remains a good memory for me with Chelsea”, indicates the 37-year-old player, very religious, who had two successes in 2020 against Stade Rennais, during the group stage. of the Champions League.
Asked by Joël Thibault about the interest shown by the Pinault family in his coming to the club last summer, Olivier Giroud shared a little confidence: “I have always appreciated François-Henri Pinault. We were neighbors for a while in London, and he even invited me to dinner at his place one day. We sympathized with our wives too [la célèbre actrice Salma Hayek donc]. There was interest from Rennes, and this capital sympathy that I have in France is always a pleasure. But it’s not in my plans to come back.” After all, the unsinkable Blues scorer still has four or five seasons ahead of him, right?
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