They hugged to jump for joy at the announcement of the draw. Side Antoine Letiévant and striker Samir Bakir, both Bergerac Périgord Football Club players are both from Saint-Etienne. They will play the eighth finals of the Coupe de France on the weekend of January 29 and 30 against the club that rocked their childhood. Maybe the game of their life.
“Saint-Etienne Bordeaux, four hours guys!”
“We had talked about it before, but we didn’t dare believe it”, laughs Antoine Letiévant. The nose riveted on his phone at the announcement of the draw, he receives dozens of messages from his friends and family in the Forez. “It’s madness, I’m still in shock. My brother played at Saint-Etienne, I used to come to see them play when I was little at Geoffroy-Guichard … It’s a dream there. A dream. awake”exclaims Samir Bakir, his voice half broken. He can’t stop smiling.
It’s a dream, a waking dream
– Samir Bakir
“Saint-Etienne – Bordeaux, it’s four o’clock guys! You have to take the minibuses!” : on the phone with his friends from Saint-Etienne, the Bergerac striker is already preparing the arrival of a whole group of friends from the Loire. Antoine Letiévant has already called his parents: “There may be a bus from Sainté of my friends who will disembark to see the match, everyone will make the trip to come. To think that I am going to play against Saint-Etienne is the irony of the Coupe de France, life … it’s incredible “.
But the Bergerac side warns: he will not watch the Greens play: “I don’t know who will be on my side, since there is the Africa Cup of Nations … but I will give my all!”