Invited by the club media to talk about his debut at OGC Nice, Hugo Lloris returned to his return to the reserve after his arrival with the pros.
First Ligue 1 match at 19, first selection for the French team at 21 and captain of the Blues at 23: Hugo Lloris is a monster of precocity. However, the young child was in for a break when he was just discovering the OGC Nice professional group. Fourth goalkeeper and therefore limited to extras, the Riviera goalkeeper preferred to return to the reserve team.
“ The hardest thing in these moments is to remain patient because you feel that you have the ability to impose yourself but there is still a hierarchy. At that time, there were three gardens in place: Damien Gregorini, Bruno Valencony and Hilaire Munoz. And my arrival in the back, he explained to the Gym website. What was planned was for me to return to the pros. In their idea, they wanted to take me back with the reserve and bring me up gradually. Except that I didn’t want to wait. »
“I needed to play”
“You will have good preparation with the pros. Return to the group in January”, he continued, adding: “It’s a big part of my personality. I felt the need to play, the need to belong to a team and that wasn’t necessarily the case in pro where I felt more like I was the youngest who had to be patient and learn. »
“ It’s a wonderful moment with Enrique Pionetti who is the garden monitor. And it was important because in my training, I don’t have a lot of time in specific exercises and he is the Italian school so he brought me a lot on the technical level,
he explained again. But at one point, I needed to play because training without being able to participate in reduced games, oppositions And if we rest on the coast, it’s a little frustrating. I made a decision and came back down on my own. This is not available from Gernoth Rohr but is also understandable. »