There are sports journalists who will remain for a long time in the collective unconscious of the French, and Thierry Roland is clearly one of them. Like Thierry Gilardi or Grégoire Margotton, the journalist who died at the age of 74 is one of the journalists who had the chance to comment on the matches of the France team during their career. . The highlight of his career was the World Cup final organized in France in 1998, which saw Zinedine Zidane’s Blues win against Brazil. After a life devoted to football, Jean-Michel Larqué’s great friend died of a stroke at his Parisian home on June 16, 2012.
A disappearance which led to a series of tributes from all the players in a sport of which he was a valued element. If the commentary Thierry Roland often turned out to be very good and professional, an anecdote told by his great friend Jacques Vendroux on the set of L’heure des pros on June 16 comes to slightly dent this image. “The most extraordinary moment that we have been able to experience is your wedding”begins by telling the 74-year-old journalist, before Françoise Boulain-Roland, wife of the sports commentator and present on the set at the time, responds: “Yes it’s true, we weren’t many, but it was a good time”.
He said to us: ‘I think I made a dumpling. I forgot to invite my brother’
Jacques Vendroux then begins to tell the story of the wedding of Thierry and Françoise which took place in Coulommiers (Seine-et-Marne). If everything went well that day, arriving at the restaurant, Thierry Roland remembers a detail that is embarrassing to say the least. “He said to us: ‘I think I made a dumpling. I forgot to invite my brother’. We told him to call him and the little brother arrived a few minutes later”reveals Jacques Vendroux.
A particularly funny and surprising anecdote that recalls all the humor and sympathy that accompanied Thierry Roland throughout his life.