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Journalist
Passionate about sport, cinema and television (on the screen as behind) since his childhood, Bernard has been a journalist for the 10 sport since 2018. More skillful keyboard in hand than balloon, he decides to cover mainly a sport adulated, criticized and hated at the same time (football) and a sport that is not one (wrestling).
Smoking when you are a professional football player may seem incongruous. And yet, some big names did not hesitate. Fabrice Henry, former OM player, reports a surprising scene in the team with Fabien Barthez, taken smoking. A habit that the legendary porter of the Blues has long kept.
-If tobacco and sport do not mix well, that did not prevent some football players very well known to crack occasionally or regularly for cigarettes. This was notably the case with several players in The French team sacred in 1998 as Emmanuel PetitZinedine Zidane or Fabien Barthezsmoking from his young years.
“Fabien was sitting on the puppies, smoking his cigarette”
Past loon Between 1993 and 1994, Fabrice Henry Delivered a funny anecdote about the world champion: ” The goalkeeper I prefer? Fabien Barthez, in Marseille. Before a match, I want to go pissing and see smoke coming out of the toilet! I open the door and Fabien was sitting on the puppies, smoking his cigarette! »
Another story at Manchester United
Fabrice Henry is not the first player to evoke the penchant of Fabien Barthez For cigarettes. In 2014, Paul Scholes had also revealed an anecdote concerning the former porter of the Blues, accompanied by another 1998 world champion. “” In United, the laundry room was regularly full of smoke in the morning because Laurent Blanc and Fabien Barthez did not want to start training without having smoked a cigarette “Revealed the ex-player of Manchester United au Mail Online.