Former teammate of Yoann Gourcuff at the Girondins de Bordeaux, Benoit Trémoulinas had seen the playmaker landing from Milan AC in the summer of 2008. He remembers having immediately been amazed by the player's talent from the first training, and recounts his sporty thunderbolt with Gourcuff in Bordeaux.
In the bonus of his career, between 2008 and 2010 with the Girondins de BordeauxYoann Gourcuff had everything from a high class player. It is also the memory that preserves Benoit Trémoulinasformer left side of the Girondin club, which had seen Gourcuff disembark Milan AC in 2008. And at the microphone of Colinterview, Trémoulinas Compens with his admiration for his ex-co-team Bordeaux.
“Ah yeah, he is very hot”
« When you play with Yoann Gourcuff and he is at the height, as soon as we had the opportunity to give him the ball, we gave him (…) to the Girondins, when he arrived, the first training sessions we said 'Ah yeah, he is very hot'. In his ball conduct, in his ball protection, in his striking quality, transverse, passing … From the outset we said to ourselves 'Oulala, he is very hot'. He arrived a little on tiptoe, he was very discreet, he was a big worker before or after training … After two or three friendly matches, we understood right away. We had a nugget that had arrived … We thought we were going to quickly give him the ball (laughs). Besides, Jean-Louis Gasset said 'Give the technique!' (laughs). He was an incredible, discreet, but also good alive player “, tell Benoit Trémoulinas about Yoann Gourcuff.
“We spent some nice evenings …”
« We still spent some nice evenings with Yoann. In Bordeaux, he was very happy. Afterwards, there was a complicated transfer to Lyon. He arrived in a locker room where there were other stars, it was no longer he who was in the middle of everyone, and it was perhaps complicated for him. But in any case, in Bordeaux, with us, he was very happy “, Continues the old left side of Girondins de Bordeaux.
