Zapping But! Football Club FC Nantes: the complete list of the Canaries
If Franck Ribéry has never passed (and will probably never pass!) by FC Nantes, the attacking midfielder of Salernitana (39 years old) almost owes his career to the Canaries. In its edition of the day, the Telegram returns to the match which changed the life of the Boulonnais: an 8th final of the Coupe de France Nantes – Brest at Beaujoire.
Indeed, it is on the basis of this match of February 11, 2004 that the former star of OM and Bayern Munich began to be talked about in the National championship. If the Brestois had lost 0-4, Ribéry was then out of the lot: “Franck had been breathtaking, brilliant, enormous. He had made them dizzy, especially in Yepes. For him, it had been a trigger, the start of lusts, ”explains his then coach Albert Rust.
In Brest, no one has forgotten Ribéry’s recital against Nantes
Its former president Michel Jestin also remembers: “In life, there are matches that remain for you and that of Franck that evening is engraved in my memory. He had been incredible and untenable, in the style we know of him. He had clearly been the best player of the 22 on the pitch, he had revealed himself there”.
Moreover, it is the video of this match which will push FC Metz to sign him at the end of this 2003-04 season: “His agent had sent me information about Franck and obviously the tape of his match in Nantes where we see the extent of his exceptional talent (…) From that moment on, we followed him more closely in National, ”recalls Patrick Razurel, who signed him in Moselle. The rest, we know it…
Nantes had beaten Brest, Ribéry revealed himself
On February 11, 2004, FC Nantes beat Stade Brestois (then in National) in the round of 16 of the Coupe de France with the final score of 4-0. That day, Franck Ribéry changed the course of his career against Mario Yepes and Nicolas Gillet.
