D1’s top scorer in 1994, with 20 goals, left a club with which he scored 75 goals in 253 games between 1989 and 1996.
Absent from the first leg in Normandy (0-0), Roger Boli reunites with the club blood and gold March 8, 1997, in Bollaert. He was already warmly applauded when he landed on the lawn, an hour and a half from kick-off. The two teams are struggling to maintain D1. The Lensois, sixteenth, are ahead of Le Havres located one row behind. The meeting is tense.
In the 30th minute, on a pass from Vikash Dhorasso, Roger Boli gave the victory to the HAC (0-1), weaving between Jimmy Adjovi-Boco and David Régis, before beating Guillaume Warmuz, his ex-teammate. The sequel is one of the tastiest episodes in the love story that linked the attacker to the artesian club. In tears, almost apologizing for this goal, he comes to greet a kop who applauds him closely. At a time when it is then not customary – as it is today – not to celebrate a goal scored against his former team, the sincerity and spontaneity of Roger Boli’s gesture touch Bollaert in the heart .
“It smells of D2!” ”
If he was not born, Charles Boli imagines the scene. ” I obviously heard about itexplains Roger’s son. It was crazy for him to come back to Bollaert. Besides, he scores. It must have been odd for Le Havre supporters to see him go to the Lens kop (laughs). “
Les Lensois, authors of a performance ” pitiful “According to La Voix du Nord, are on the brink. ” It smells of D2! “Headlines our newspaper.
Gervais Martel is no longer waiting to oust Slavo Muslin, the Serbian coach who arrived in the summer of 1996. He is replaced by Roger Lemerre, who saved Racing from demotion. A year later, with Daniel Leclercq at the helm, the club will be champion of France.
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