His backstory is brilliant, and should be made into an oscar-winning film/documentary.
He is far more deserving of one than his little fraud rat blackface loving teammate
2nd tier football to promotion to beating big spenders PSG to the league in an underdog story, then moving to England to play under a national icon Wenger, to being successful here, culminating in a World Cup win for LesBleus. Scoring Golazos all the way.
It’s a testament to his hustle that we compare him to the best strikers in Europe rather than his apparent brethren, guys like Kris Boyd. So of course he comes up massively short in that way.
Yeah if Koscielny was a part of that World cup squad, those two would be given as an example to budding footballers that it’s never too late to make your mark.
That downgrades what he achieved, he only scored 3 penalties. He must have scored about 2/3s of these from outside the box and he was absolutely lethal freekick taker, all his France goals:
He was a fantastic FK taker…
Only 3 PKs?? Maybe I mixed up his club goals with his international goals…
In the end, it was 30+ years ago… old man can’t remember clearly.
Platini was instrumental in making free kick taking a specialist skill. Hours of practice turned this into an art form with him. Pretty much inspired a generation into doing this and the norm we see today.
Truly was a brilliant footballer and put France on the footballing map from the late 70s onwards.
old man can’t remember clearly.
