Denounce the “toxic masculinity” in football to push Gourcuff: the contradictions of Evra

At the start of the year, the former Manchester United player is back in the spotlight for the promotion of his biography “I Love This Game”. Patrice Evra has been around the media to talk about everything, really everything. And there are one or two subjects that we would have done well, especially on the Covid.

Here, we salute the salutary courage of the former left side of the France team who revealed the atrocities of which he was a victim as a child, the sexual assaults which accompanied his adolescence. That a former player of the caliber of Patrice Evra, 81 caps, testifies to this is an act of bravery and possibly saving, who knows, for generations to come. We hope so. Thank you Patrice, sincerely.

Thursday evening, live on RMC, in the program “Rothen s’flamme”, Patrice Evra was surprisingly much lighter when it came to a certain Yoann Gourcuff, point of tension of the Blues during the 2010 World Cup Admittedly, the atmosphere was not the same, since Evra was accompanied by Jérôme Rothen, former partner in Monaco and in the national team, and also by Nicolas Anelka, who was a main actor in the South African crash.

On arrival, a lot of laughter and little compassion when it came to the Breton, his doubts, the pressure he was constantly putting on his shoulders, because he was the successor of whom you know, that he was not accepted as such and, also, did not assume this heavy lineage.

“He was really too tender”, explains Pat Evra in his book. And the fact that he fails to thrive still seems incomprehensible to Evra, who also tried one or two dubious imitations of the former Bordeaux man during the show. “There are all these big guys, they hear this guy talking like that, he thinks ‘something is wrong’”, he explained yesterday on RMC. An illustration of the famous “Toxic masculinity”, probably.

The other fault of Gourcuff? Not having denied the alleged blows that Ribéry would have administered to him during the World Cup. This time, it’s Nicolas Anelka speaking. And Evra bouncing back.

– Anelka : “You are a man, you have a minimum of respect for yourself. You go out and say ‘who is going to victimize me in a locker room?’.

– Euro: “The truth was it worked. People said to him: ‘Stay behind, it will hit the scum and you, you will be the little French.’ Whereas I was just defending him. ”

Patrice Evra would have thought the opposite would have happened otherwise.