He is – and will undoubtedly remain – the most famous, the most emblematic of the players of the club football fromAS Nancy-Lorraine. A native of Jœuf (Meurthe-et-Moselle), Michel Platini entered the Nancy training center in 1972 and launched his professional career there. He played 214 games until his departure – for Saint -Etienne – in 1979.
Club legend – with which he won the title of D2 champion in 1975 and the Coupe de France in 1978 -, The former captain of the Blues So savor at its fair value the (re) climb of the club of its beginnings in Ligue 2 after a purgatory of three seasons in National. The victory (0-1), Friday, May 2, against Nîmes on the 30th day of champion allows the club to validate first place and the ticket for the upper floor. Three days after deliverance, Platini delivered his emotions this Monday during an interview with the newspaper The East Republican.
“When I learned the climb of the ASNL, I thought of my dad Aldo (Disappeared in 2017), confides, this Monday, Michel Platini of the newspaper. I told myself that if my father was still there, I would have made him a phone call to share this moment with him. »»
“A division more in accordance with its standing”
The triple Ballon d’Or (1983, 1984, 1985) and former coach of the Blues also delivered his expert look at the work of Pablo Correa. The Nancy coach whom he considers “a super leader of men, a coach who knows football very well and who has Nancy in the heart”.
After first passages from 2002 to 2011 and then from 2013 to 2018, the Franco -Uruguayan coach was recalled in Nancy at the end of 2023. Two years later, he therefore allowed the club, after an almost perfect season – best attack, best defense and only 19 success in 30 days – to win the title of French national champion and to find League 2.
“ASNL finds a division more in accordance with its standing and its history,” concludes Michel Platini who hopes that this climb marks “the beginning of a new positive cycle”.
