Germain, Gastien, Weah, Thuram: many players in the Ligue 1 squad for the 2022-2023 season have followed in the footsteps of their fathers, who themselves passed through the French Championship. The list in pictures between vintage slideshow and game of the seven differences.
Roger and Charles Boli. Appeared four times last season with the Sang et Or before being loaned to Vicenza (Serie B), Charles Boli (23) will probably have to leave to toughen up far from Lens, where his father became top scorer in the Championship. in 1994 (20 goals).
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Philippe and Sacha Delaye. A Montpellier story, even if Sacha was born 20 years ago in Rennes, where his father played from 2000 to 2003 before moving furtively to Bastia and Istres to return to La Paillade and help the MHSC find the L1 in 2009 before retire a year later. Launched last season by Olivier Dall’Oglio, the son, also a midfielder, appeared ten times in the elite.
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Pascal and Johan Gastien. It is an intergenerational but very current story, since Pascal Gastien has been his son’s coach for four years in Clermont, as he had been in Niort, where Johan (34) was born when his father discovered the D1 there. The Chamois came back down, Gastien senior had won the right to stay in the elite with a short-lived but prestigious spell in Marseille, concluded with a Cup-Championship double. Johan, also a midfielder, had already tasted the L1 side of Dijon.
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Bruno and Valere Germain. With the Weah, they are the only ones to have been both French champions. Defensive midfielder Bruno three times with OM from 1989 to 1991 and striker Valère (32) with Monaco in 2017. Both experienced the pain of a defeat in the European Cup final in the jersey Marseille, the father in C1 (1991, against Red Star Belgrade), the son in the Europa League (2018 against Atlético de Madrid). Bruno, on the other hand, had the privilege of being selected for the France team in 1987 against the GDR.
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Elie and Elie Junior Kroupi. Trained in Rennes, Elie Kroupi was part of the team that brought Lorient back to L1 in 2001 before winning the Cup a year later against Bastia (1-0). Rebelote with Nancy for the same promotion sequence in 2005 and a victory in the Coupe de la Ligue (2-1 against Nice) in 2006, a few days before the birth of Elie Junior. Who is therefore only 16 years old but has already joined the pro group for the preparation. The new coach Régis Le Bris can be confident: when he launched him in N2 in May, the teenager, attacking like his father, scored twice.
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Benoît and Théo Le Bris. A family story since Benoît, striker in 19 L1 matches, is the brother of Régis, his former teammate in Rennes and now coach of Théo (19) with the pros in Lorient. But Régis knows Théo the footballer well, since the midfielder has been playing under his orders in reserve for three years, even if it was Christophe Pelissier who launched him into the top flight last season (4 matches).
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Jerome and Leo Leroy. The father made the pleasure last so long that, within five years, they could have played together at Châteauroux despite their twenty-five-year gap. From a distance, it would have been disturbing as the look, even the haircut, of the two circles is similar. But Léo (22 years old, 24 matches with Montpellier last season) discovered L1 at an age when his father had already played in a European Cup final (lost against Ronaldo’s Barça, 0-1) with PSG in 1997. He therefore has a little way to go before making the double winner of the Coupe de France blush with Paris (1998) and Sochaux (2007).
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Michael and Pablo Pagis. The graceful trace left by Mickaël in our memories makes us want to see Pablo (19), also attacking. The double winner of the Coupe de la Ligue (2004 with Sochaux, 2005 with Strasbourg), vice-champion of France with OM in 2007, will wait with us because his son, a pro since this winter, has not yet tasted the L1. But his ten goals in reserve last season suggest that he will not wait to be 28, unlike his father.
Bill et Enzo Tchato. A fourth Montpellier resident in this list, and this time pure juice, since Enzo (19 years old) was born and trained in the prefecture of Hérault. Bill was there on the left side (one season in L2, two in L1) between 2000 and 2003, including this famous year 2002 when his son was born in the wake of a CAN won with Cameroon. Defender also, Enzo (an appearance in L1) is on the other hand right-handed and evolves rather in the axis.
Lilian et Khephren Thuram. And maybe soon Marcus! While waiting to find out if he will succeed in repatriating the international striker (4 caps) from Mönchengladbach, OGC Nice can be delighted to have hatched Khephren (21), stolen from Monaco where Lilian was revealed between 1991 and 1996. The record holder of selections for the France team (142) had not won anything there, but he made up for it afterwards.
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George et Timothy Weah. Only one championship title for the father (PSG, 1994) and three for the son (PSG 2018 and 2019, Lille 2021). Well, it only took five small appearances in the Paris jersey for Timothy for the first two, and he is above all an extra player at LOSC. He is not yet in the nails for the Ballon d’Or, won in 1995 by George, phenomenal in Monaco (1988-1992) then in Paris (1992-1995) but whose passage in Marseille in 2001 will be much more painful .
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