Bernard Lacombe has been suffering from Alzheimer's disease for several months.
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Bernard Lacombe died at the age of 72. It was Olympique Lyonnais, a club of which he was notably a player and coach, who revealed this sad news.
“It was with immense sadness that we learned this Tuesday evening the death of Bernard Lacombe. All our thoughts go to his family and loved ones, but also lovers of Olympique Lyonnais and football. Farewell Bernard, you were our legend, the greatest of all ”can we read in a press release published on the Rhone club website.
Author of 149 achievements in the OL jersey between 1969 and 1978, Bernard Lacombe is none other than the third top scorer in the history of the club, behind Fleury Di Nallo (222) and Alexandre Lacazette (201). International tricolor 38 times, he had found the net of the nets twelve times in the jersey struck with the rooster.
Bernard Lacombe, a legend OL is dead
After going through AS Saint-Etienne and the Girondins de Bordeaux, this formidable striker had put an end to his career in 1987. In stride, he was recruited by
Jean-Michel Classrooms To occupy the position of OL sports director. A club of which he then became a coach and then advisor to the president.
“There are pain that we do not share, reacted Jean-Michel Aulas on X. Today is that of losing Bernard. Thirty-seven years of a friend without mask. Rare fidelity. He never spoke to say nothing. But when he spoke, it was right. And often decisive. In Lyon, we have lived everything together: defeats, rebirths, summits. What he embodied will not die. »»
