“There was always a but …”, Bessat recounts his career of eternally dissatisfied

• Vincent Bessat (35) will have a close eye, Sunday evening, on the match between his former club, FCN, and his hometown, Lyon.
• The former midfielder stopped his football career last summer because he “didn’t want to anymore”.
• He is in a retraining project to support footballers.

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Since this summer, Vincent Bessat (35) has turned his back on his playing career. When he recalls the memories of a journey started at the Toulouse training center and ended in Cyprus ten months ago, the former Canari (
2011-2015) does not plastron. “Even if I was not a very great football player” or “an average player like me,” he says during the interview. The native of Lyon never departs from his outspokenness or his modesty. He doesn’t like to cheat either. This summer, the midfielder therefore said stop when he had one year left of his contract with the Cypriot club of
Apollon Limassol. “I had no more desire, no more pleasure. It was time to go home, it felt the end for me. “

Already, under the Caen jersey (2015-2018), his passion for the round ball fades over the months. “I had a renewed desire when I went abroad [en 2018]… ”His family is adapting perfectly to his new Cypriot life. “It was fun! “After a first season” with a lot of playing time “, the second started off badly. “There were three of us at my post and there were too many foreign players. “The Apollo is considering a loan” in second-class clubs “, the player does not hear it that ear. “If I were younger, I would have left…” Vincent Bessat is content with training during the week and watching his partners play at the weekend. “But, I was treated like a normal player,” he emphasizes. Until the agreement for the termination of the contract which would come almost as a relief …

A reconversion project with his former agent

“I don’t miss playing football at all,” he admits today. I just did a futsal with some friends and I had fun because it was with them. In fact, “his demand for myself” got the better of his passion. “During all my years as a footballer, I have rarely been very satisfied with my performances, develops the one who forces himself to do four sports sessions per week. I was educated very rigorously. Everything always had to be square. “The famous hat-trick against Lyon on January 20, 2015,” I keep a taste of bitterness. “An average player like me should have been thrilled, but not me. I had lost the ball on Lyon’s second goal. “Like his entire career marked by dissatisfaction. “There was always a but …” In return, “I fed on this requirement, it has been a driving force for years”, admits the one who keeps in particular fond memories of “his Nantes epic with the rise in L1, with the group we had and the chemistry with the public ”.

Today, Vincent Bessat, who keeps a very close eye on the FCN and who will be an assiduous viewer of FCN-Lyon on Sunday evening (9 p.m.), has been involved for several months “in a retraining project to support players of soccer “. It was his last agent, Ismaël Lambin, who convinced him to follow this path, although not necessarily in his initial objectives. The former pro, with a wealth management diploma in his pocket, knows where he wants to go and especially where he wants to take his players. “I want them to just think about football. I want to accompany them as I would have liked to be. I missed some things. “Support, he does not imagine” not only when everything is going badly, but also when everything is going well “. Vincent Bessat wants to share his experience with others. “I think it can make them feel safe, they know what I’ve been through. Players need daily monitoring, and especially people by their side who want to serve their interests before serving themselves. “

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