VIDEO. Brut at the stadium with Guy Roux for the Auxerre match

“Oh Guy Roux! “Whether the supporters are from Marseille or Auxerre, Guy Roux does not go unnoticed. He was present on September 3 in Auxerre for their match against OM. The octogenarian coached the Burgundy club for almost 40 years, propelling the team, initially amateurs, into Ligue 1. To pay tribute to him, the grandstand of the Abbé-Deschamps stadium bears his name. “But they don’t give me a percentage on the tickets”, he jokes. Today, the stadium hosts “twelve thousand to fifteen thousand“spectators per match, rejoices the former coach. In his first season in Ligue 1, the average was 332.

“So, for me, Guy Roux is the boss. It’s the boss. He’s the master of the place. He’s a gentleman. It’s the AJA”, explains an Auxerrois supporter. But he does not see himself as such: “In reality, I don’t think of myself from Auxerre, I think of myself from Appoigny. Appoigny is the village which is ten kilometers away.“That’s where his passion for football was born. “I’ve been going to games since I was 5 years old. I started in my village in Appoigny in 1943. There were German soldiers in the stadium and I have never stopped seeing matches since.” Now, when he attends a meeting, Guy Roux no longer sees her under the eye of the coach: “I try to take pleasure in what is beautiful. It is sometimes a defensive gesture. It’s sometimes a good attack, a good goal. But you won’t see me getting up, I’m not expansive at all. It’s all inside.”