“Go get the win! Yes !” It was on his smartphone, shortly before boarding a plane that Djibril Cissé followed the penalty shootout between AS Saint-Etienne and AJ Auxerre, his favorite club, in the accession dam / stay in Ligue 1.
After Birama Touré’s victorious attempt, synonymous with the rise in the elite for AJA, the former striker of the France team exploded with joy, while maintaining a certain restraint, in the peaceful hall of the airport from Cayenne. The 2005 European champion with Liverpool was in Guyana to attend as a godfather a training course for detecting young talents in which 400 U13 footballers took part. Cissé, 40, played five years at AJ Auxerre between 1999 and 2004 (169 matches, 90 goals). He is very close to the legendary trainer Guy Roux who considers him his son.