Ame jacket, sad ending

1980 belonged to the Girondins de Bordeaux. And her trainer, Amy Jacket. When in 1980, after the departure of Raymond Goethals, Claude Baez decided to appoint Ame Jaquet, not even 40 years old and with only four difficult seasons at Olympique Lyonnais for any experience, the bet seemed audacious to say the least.

But in almost a decade, the former midfielder would make the Girondins the benchmark in France with three French Championship titles, two Coupe de France crowns and several European epics. However, when Bordeaux fell into serious financial difficulties during the 1988–89 season, Claude Baez did not hesitate to sacrifice his coach on Valentine’s Day.

Rebellion a year later

Present at the press conference, the Bordeaux president paid tribute to his former coach. ” When you are the president of a club, you have to do things that are not pleasant on the one hand, and on the other hand clean. And when we have a coach like Aimé Jacquet, a serious, hard-working, capable coach, it is dishonest, but it was done, because it had to be done to thank such a man.

He explains in the introduction. In the situation we were in, it was easier to kidnap one man than to kill sixteen. If we are there, it is the responsibility of the players, they know it and are aware of it. »

But the relationship between the two men had been strained for several months and the relationship became strained, making this violent breakup inevitable.

Aimé Jacquet won’t take long to find a job. The following summer, he arrived at the head of ambitious Montpellier, who had finished third in the championship the previous season. But the venture was cut short, the native of Sail-sous-Couzan not liking from the start that Michel Mazey was recruiting without consulting him. And finally on the eve of Valentine’s Day, he reappeared…