FC Metz coach Frédéric Antonetti made touching revelations during an interview which will be broadcast in full this Sunday evening on Europe 1.
Arrived in Lorraine in 2018, the Corsican technician notably returned to the period crossed from December 2018 to July 2020, when he accompanied his wife Véronique in the illness until his death. ” First, I tendered my resignation. The president didn’t want to. He told me : ‘No, I want you to continue, even from afar’. That is the first condition. The second is that my wife wanted me to continue. So, from there, I continued to follow the club, to watch the matches, to take care of recruitment. But doing both, let’s say that at times, it was very complicated. But it was also perhaps a breath of fresh air for me. Football has always helped me and also in this very difficult period. I find it hard to talk about it and I don’t want to talk about it anymore,” Antonetti let go.
Then revived on his career, the FC Metz technician showed modesty. ” I am simply a coach-trainer, who has made his career in L1, sometimes in L 2. It is the fact of having stayed in the environment for a long time that counts. But I don’t see myself as out of the ordinary. Exceptional, it is the Wengers, Mourinho, Guardiola… who are there all the time, every three days. I am a simple servant of football. But I’m happy with my journey and to have lasted…”, did he conclude.
