The very discreet coach, champion of France in 2000 with Monaco, finally delivers his truths in an autobiography retracing his 40 years in the world of football.
It’s exactly ten o’clock when Claude Puel, slender in jeans and a perfectly fitted jacket, joins us in the plush lounge of the Hôtel des Saint Pères in the heart of Paris. Exactly on schedule, as agreed. We expected no less from this 61-year-old Castrese known for his square and methodical mind, sometimes perhaps to excess, a Stakhanovist of work obsessed with performance who lives football 100% night and day. A passion too devouring? “I always thought of football. Apart from football, it’s true that I don’t have a very fun daily life and I’ve never managed to disconnect“, admits smiling the coach without a job since a painful experience in Saint-Etienne completed in December 2021.
Since this separation, the former midfielder who lives happy days in his nest in Monaco, from where he can see the Louis II stadium, has had time to finish his autobiography started in England. A book he has, made rare, written alone, without the help…
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