At 33, Marc Planus has decided to leave Bordeaux at the end of the season with the desire to live a final challenge far from Europe.
This is the year of change in Bordeaux. On 23 May, the Girondins in fact inaugurate the new stadium of the city against Montpellier during the 38th and final day of the league season 1. A match that will also be the opportunity (maybe) to see Marc Planus for the last time with the shirt to the shoulder on the back.
“With the club, it was decided to stop the adventure here” , confirmed Thursday press conference the central defender 33 years. “26 years this has been a long, gorgeous, beautiful, intense, we’ll move on” , added, very moved, the surprise guest of the 2010 World Cup, selected by Raymond Domenech who offered him a selection (May 30, 2010 against Tunisia). “The little boy who came here in 1989 to seven years has grown. He was happy first. For a player before being filled here, I was a happy man. I have a little emotion but that’s life footballer. “
A footballer launched in Ligue 1 by Elie Baup during a Bordeaux-Rennes match on 9 November 2002. Twelve years half later, this simple and elegant defender displays 379 games (including 298 L1 matches and 40 European Cups matches) with his club always but especially a championship of France (2009), a Coupe de France (2013) and two League Cups (2007 and 2009) as a record.
The arrival of Willy Sagnol on the bench Bordeaux last summer only offered him only a few pleasures this season (six L1 matches). But not the desire to hang up. “I have not been injured this season, I will continue , he said. I’d like to continue abroad. I would like to play a year or two more. I really enjoyed this year, working with the staff, even though I have not played much. He thinks I can go on some years. My priority is abroad, something ‘far enough, not necessarily in Europe. “ At more than 6,000 kilometers from Bordeaux, the United States may be waiting for the …
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