Aimé Jacquet saw his status change completely in just one month during the 1998 World Cup. By leading the French team to the roof of the world after a last unforgettable victory against Brazil in the final, the Former midfielder, critic, vilified The months preceding the event, has in fact entered the Pantheon of French sport.

This success at the head of the Blues makes him for many the greatest French coach in history. Building on the world title won in 2018, the two finals played at Euro 2016 and the 2022 World Cup, Didier Deschamps can nevertheless legitimately challenge this status.

Given the club’s scapular situation, Aimé Jacquet is not, however, about to see a technician take away the title of greatest coach in the history of the Girondins. With his three championship titles (1984, 1985, 1987), his two Coupe de France coronations and his European epics culminating in the C1 semi-final in 1985, the native of Sail-sous- Couzan a special place in the legend of Des Girondins.

A great connoisseur of the history of the club, journalist Julien Bée relies on the formula of the subject. “For me, obviously it’s Aimé Jacquet. The modern fact that Aimé Jacquet is the instructor who has won the most trophies with the Girondins de Bordeaux, he confided in the podcast Les Débriefeurs. Plus the 420 matches with the Girondins. This is not the only coach for whom André Gérard is the most coach of the Girondins de Bordeaux in the 50s and returned in the 70s”

“ But it’s true that Aimé Jacquet is the one through whom we went to Haillan all the same. It was he who, after seeing the place, said to Claude Bez ‘I think this is where we should go if we really want to move on to a new level’, he continued. It was he who chose that so there is a whole environment which is still today, coming from the idea of ​​Aimé Jacquet. It’s important. It totally marked the era of the Girondins de Bordeaux. »