The world stopped turning on the football planet on Tuesday July 5 with the announcement of the relegation of the Girondins de Bordeaux in National. It’s a whole world that has collapsed for the many supporters of the Bordeaux club. After the shock, it’s time to mobilize. At the call of the Ultramarines, nearly 3,000 people showed their support for the scapular club on Saturday July 9. France Bleu Gironde participates in this mobilization and also collects your testimonies.
All behind the Girondins de Bordeaux
The messages of support left on the France Bleu Gironde website are numerous and all testify to this glorious past and the memories engraved in the heads of the supporters who have always followed the club. This is the case of Fabienne in Saint Caprais de Bordeaux. “Since the age of 14, I have been in love with the Girondins, I am 54 today and to see my heart club go down so low saddens me. Also, I think of all the club’s employees and all the partners who gravitate around the club. This club must not die, the players pass but the supporters remain. Save this club. Go Bordeaux. We are all going to succeed in restoring the image and that Bordeaux finds the place it deserves.”
– Guillaume Bonnaud PHOTOPQR/SUD OUEST/MAXPPP
Julien from Bordeaux remembers his first match at Lescure. “FCGB-HAC in 86, 5-3. Then the gardens of the town hall for the reception following the double cup/championship. The class of club suits and ties. I was at Haillan for Téléfoot with Didier Roustan at the time, the year when Éric Cantona was with us. In San Siro and Munich in 96, the whole European campaign at home since the 1st game in Intertoto. Bordeaux-Milan at Lescure. Again in Haillan in May 99, in the swimming pool, after returning from the Parc des Princes with a new title of champion of France. The League Cup final lost in this same park, with Gilbert Bodart as goalkeeper, the one won at the Stade de France and of course the 2009 title, the C1 campaigns, the first to bring OL down on the national, without forgetting the Coupe de France with Mr. Gillot and a number of talented players for 40 years.”
– Claude Petit PHOTOPQR/SUD OUEST/MAXPPP
“The Girondins, a part of my life.
The Girondins de Bordeaux are individual memories but also moments of sharing, as Romain tells Bouscat. “The Girondins, a part of my life. My grandfather brought me to the stadium one day in December 98 for a Bordeaux – Metz 1998. Victory 6-0. Then the passion entered and never came out. All the matches that followed, we both went to support our Girondins, the debriefs on the way back by car, the victories, the defeats, the joys, the sorrows, the refreshments, the half-time debates, Lescure. My regret is not having been able to introduce Gallice to my grandfather, who left too soon. For him, for all those people who have experienced this transmission of passion, for all those who have left and those who remain heartbroken at the idea of losing a part of us, the Girondins de Bordeaux must stay in Ligue 2. Go Bordeaux.
Testimonials here and elsewhere
The Girondins are mobilizing for the Girondins of Bordeaux… but the testimonies also go beyond the borders of our department such as that of Yvon in Noisiel-Seine-et-Marne. “Me, my brothers, supporter for 70 years – and you can imagine that I did not start in the cradle -, exiled in the Paris region for half a century, excuse me a little. I, who wore out my little boy’s bottoms in the 1950s on the cement benches of Lescure at the time, with its cycle track and races behind a motorbike. From the time when Uncle Roger who accompanied me ritually took a photo of Sud-Ouest out of his pocket showing him levitating in the air, making a face. He who had played at a level that I do not know at the Girondins, the Coqs Rouges or elsewhere, no matter how much the child that I was admired him! At the time when the custom was, at the end of the match, to throw on the lawn his paper cushion filled with straw which served to protect his buttocks from the cold and hardness of said benches. Me that some youngsters among us may take for an old madman when reading about a past they can’t even imagine! We, my dear supporter friends in love with our Girondins, our colors, our coat of arms (the old one!) and our history, in our outpouring of love and hope that they will live on forever! So we, my brothers, we won’t let them die… Cheer up! Go Bordeaux!”
Together, let’s support the Girondins de Bordeaux
If the hope is slim to see the Girondins de Bordeaux evolve in Ligue 2 next season, the mobilization continues. Leave your testimonials of support on the France Bleu Gironde website. These messages will be broadcast on the antenna and will be transmitted to the club. Navy and White, one day. Navy and White, always. Go Bordeaux!