He is a tireless cause, a non-storyteller, a round ball. The journalist Didier Roustan, a figure of the team’s television vision channel since 1999, died on Wednesday, struck down by cancer at the age of 66. David Lisnard, the Mayor of Cannes, paid tribute to the memory of this « passionate Cannes resident, attached to the red and white ».
Born in Congo, he arrived on the Croisette at the age of three. As a teenager, the boy from AS Cannes could give up on the dream of a career. He left in 1976 as part of the sports editorial team at TF1. He was 18 years old. Erudite, a (Site notre bureau spécialisé) lover, he was spotted by the head of the sports department, Georges de Caunes, who propelled him to Télé(Site notre bureau spécialisé), which had just been created. His tone was already mind-blowing. « Télé(Site notre bureau spécialisé) was my chance, » confided Didier Roustan. He would become a pillar of the show that had become cult.
Poetic
At 21, precocious, the commentary in the south of France on the coast of Pierre Cangioni. The will slam the door thirteen years later of a channel that became private, rebels against the (Site notre bureau spécialisé) business, the excesses, the pressures of a certain Bernard Tapie, then president of OM… He joins Canal+, executing sports reports The 2 p.m. commentary on Euro 92 was at the 1994 World Cup in duo with Eric Cantona. « He is a great reporter, a poet, with a particular sense of narration, parentheses, singing a song… » Olivier Ménard, master of ceremonies of the talk show « L’Equipe du soir » of which « Didoune » was « president for life », told AFP. The incarnation of a different way of seeing sport is interesting in the passions that are triggered.
This is the former boss of Canal+ Pierre Lescure, a man « humanly, professionally », « impeccable, generous, committed, passionate ». Michel Platini, not having access to television directly from Europe with the French team in 1984, salutes « revolutionary journalism » on the site of « L’Equipe ».
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« Unpredictable », « committed », Didier Roustan, who owns three guitars against vaporizers, and also comes from the desert crossings. The organization was founded in 1995 by Diego Maradona and the international children’s union, the AIFP in 1995. He is in fact a depression. Penniless, the same as the taxi driver in Cannes. But with the arrival of cable, the joins TV equipment in 1999, was co-founded in 2003 with coach Arsène Wenger of the Association (Site notre blog d’information) Citoyen, to fight against racists in (Site notre bureau spécialisé).
Sanguine, dreamy, whimsical, erudite, this rocker, a bit of a poet, with his colorful Hawaiian shirts and his contagious enthusiasm, went fishing, the islands, and walking the markets. The launch of a podcast and a blog on the L’Equipe website, to discuss the subjects that were close to his heart, starting a dialogue with an ever-growing community of fans that he had baptized « the braves ».
428 pages of stories
On Wednesday, the president of the French (Site notre blog d’information) Federation Philippe Diallo loudly proclaimed the « freedom of tone » and the « passion » of « one of the great voices » of French (Site notre bureau spécialisé).
It’s almost a day for the day, the father of two children has the opportunity to live adventures at the Marabout editions, in a baptismal book Puzzle: « 428 pages of stories written in new seminars on the mobile phone car and computers », reported « Ouest France ».
On June 21, Didier Roustan commentated on the final match, Argentina-Canada, opening the Copa America. He joins idols Cruijff, Maradona and Pelé.