On the occasion of the release of his book «I love this game», Patrice Evra (40 years old) was the guest, this Thursday, of the show “Rothen ignites” on RMC. Present alongside Knysna at the 2010 World Cup“>Nicolas Anelka, the former Manchester United side returned notably to the Knysna episode experienced by the France team in 2010 and more particularly to this infamous clash between Nicolas Anelka and Raymond Domenech. When questioned on this subject, Evra thus insisted on expressing his truth about the famous: * “will make you enc dirty son of p», titled by The team the day after the events. “I wanted to convince Nico (to apologize)”, explains Patrice Evra first before adding: “Nico told me: no worries, I apologize to the group and the coach, but I cannot do it in public. This is not what I said (compared to the famous One of L’Equipe, editor’s note) and my lawyers are on it. I’m not going to go and apologize publicly for something I didn’t say. ”*
But the former Marseillais did not stop there and thus unveiled all the backstage of this clash symbolizing by itself the resounding failure of the Blues at Knysna and which, according to him, has often been distorted by the successive declarations of the different actors, and this up to the political world. “When they told me that they were going to expel Nico, I said to Domenech: It’s going to be the biggest mistake, you are going to destroy this group, this group is going to go into a spin. He said, “OK. If he apologizes to the group and to me, no worries.” I went to Nico’s room to convince him. I ask where the coach is. They tell me we can’t find him. It is as if he had disappeared. In my head, I tell myself that Nico is going to change his decision. And then there, I go up and I see the quiet coach with Jean-Pierre Escalettes. They are laughing. I tell the coach that we have been waiting for him for an hour and that Nico is ready to apologize. The coach said to me: “it’s too late, it’s over”. Above, it is the President of the Republic. “
