How an Ageing Frenchman Became the Greatest Cult Hero Ever

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[@dougpinnick9279]

J'aimais beaucoup Franckie lorsque j'étais enfant, un très grand joueur qui avait une frappe de balle très impressionnante. Il n'a pas eu la carrière qu'il méritait en équipe de France. Merci pour cet hommage ! 🙏

[@bountykilla8617]

Il était à l'Euro 92.

[@michaelward5370]

Franck Sauzee was truly a fantastic player! I remember being blown away by the fact he signed for Hibs! I miss the days when Scottish teams were able to attract players like Sauzee, Cannigia, the deBoer brothers, Larsson, Ravanelli, etc! I mean, can you believe that both Cannigia and Ravanelli played for Dundee???

[@chriskennedy2298]

You forgot David healy

[@michaelward5370]

@@chriskennedy2298, I don't know if I would class David Healy as a big name player like Ravanelli or the deBoer brothers! He was a good player though!!

[@chriskennedy2298]

@@michaelward5370 was only kidding . He did little in Scottish football. He was a bit pudgy then

[@michaelward5370]

@@chriskennedy2298, sometimes you just can't tell when somebody's ripping it! So many people have kinda cult players that they love! But that's what I was thinking when I read your comment, I was like, I cannae remember him doing much up here! Although to be fair, he did have a couple of half decent runs down south!!

[@christianbrix4311]

Man, those two goals by Marcel Dib in the cup final were amazing. I've never heard of him before

[@TheDoctoray]

0😅

[@Michael-wp3yl]

Marcel Dib is a pure Marseille kid. He helped OM joining back Ligue 1 after being relegated.

[@DuncanLeslie-nv3wu]

He played defence midfield and up front for Hibs in every game , legend 💚

[@jamesflynn3278]

I don't follow Scottish football that closely but this is another great video, well produced, well told and not an inch of filler on it. This channel will be big very soon.

[@halcyon289]

Indeed

[@sdkben]

I learnt from him in the French magazine "Onze Mondial" in th early 90s that kicking the ball is not about how hard your feet or legs kick the ball but about your body position. It really helped me scoring some great goals and made me the free kick guy of the team. Thanks Franck ! Players from the French national team should take a look on this tutorial imho. I have to add he is very good at calling games on TV with is very specific Ardèche accent and calm voice.

[@flashbackfootball1367]

He had some of the hardest, straightest, cleanest shots I've ever seen, definately a good guy to learn how to strike a football from!

[@maleficedark5060]

From France : Impressive work !

[@MimieThalie]

The time when French Championship was so attractive.. I'm very touched be this vidéo.. Thanks for you and for our genial Franck. ❤❤

[@micknellis9549]

Your videos are tremendous my man.. thanks for this content !! Didni realise how guid this guy was.

[@_resource-guy1878]

Maybe sooner or later, can we get a video on Steve McLaren's Twente vs Martin Jol's Ajax in 2010. Ajax scored 106 goals that season and still didn't win the league with Luis Suárez and Pantelic. Twente won it with Bryan Ruiz and a young Luuk de Jong

[@flashbackfootball1367]

I like this idea a lot! I'll put it on the list

[@YMY_1999]

@@flashbackfootball1367what a channel man, kudos to you. Love your content

[@ValkarinNS]

Fun fact: Silvester Takač, one of the best players of his generation, was sold midway through FC Vojvodina's 66/67 season to secure money for stadium floodlights - aptly nicknamed Takač's eyes. Vojvodina would eventually narrowly lose to Celtic in the quarters of the European Cup - a loss many of us, Vojvodina fans, maintain would have never come to pass had Takač remained at the club.

[@flashbackfootball1367]

Fascinating, thanks for the comment.

[@Spectrescup]

That's great

[@PIP...33]

@@flashbackfootball1367 SO U CAN SPELL SAUCHAUX TEAM BUT NOT SUSIC WHOS LAST LETTER SPELL SAME ??

[@flashbackfootball1367]

@@PIP...33 What minute of the video does this refer to?

[@hernan5940]

@@PIP...33 Sochaux

[@sebastienlola]

magnificent, we didn't really know in France to what extent Sauzée ( who played in my club Montpellier ) had succeeded at Hibernians . fabulous, thank you .

[@iandawe948]

Excelent video on a player i dont recall. Who seemed a genuine player unlike the ego maniacs we get today.

[@sebastienarmella8580]

I am a very , very , very fan of Scottish Football since my youngers years and after traveling Two times over there , i fallen in love with Scotland . I still following the results of The Hib's , Heart's , Rangers and Celtic . I'm a 53 years old now . I do my first tattoo in my teenaging in Dunfermline during the 80's with an old Tattoo artist named J.Johnstone . Despite my old age , i still wearing my track jacket arboring the Saltire and the scottish banner proudly sit in state in my home . I'm eager to back in Scotland and stay a longer time . I would be very happy to sit in a Edinburgh's derby supporting the Hib's !!! and by my attendance , restore the "Auld Alliance" . Fantastic video with Franck Sauzée ! I saw him one time playing with National french team , France Vs Spain in Parc des Princes , 1991's qualifier match for the Euro 1992 . After opening score by Spain , Sauzée equalize before one of the most incredible goal of Jean Pierre Papin , the match finalized by a goal signed Laurent Blanc . Thanks a lot for this video and a very friendly salute from France !

[@AffectedArea]

Scottish football was great in the 80s then big money came in and ruined it.

[@louisbernard9161]

Thanks for this very nice tribute. He was one of the greats and he could still be involved as a coach or consultant like a few legends from this era. This video has been made by a true supporter.

[@karimremini4517]

One of my favourites as a kid at Sochaux ! The good old days...

[@tommythecat]

Imagine this being the way you found out Fabien Barthez once had hair

[@justablokepostingfunvids7137]

😂😂

[@TheAngrySportsfan01]

😂😂😂

[@moussetache1815]

Haha someone wasn't a OM fan growing up. I'm a 46 years old french dude.

[@19coyote80]

What minute wad that mate? I usually listen to videos not watch.

[@tommythecat]

@@19coyote80 11:10

[@charlesogier6469]

As a loyal Saint-Etienne fan, I always liked Sauzée (in spite of my hatred for Marseille) and always wished he would join us at some point. Ardeche, where he is from, is a green Saint-Etienne fans territory (lot of sections of fans and individuals travelling to the St Etienne stadium at home and away, even in the ultra fans Green Angels and Magic Fans they have a good Ardeche contingent) it is about 80-100km distant from St Etienne, and a lot of St Etienne coal miners had ancestry in the villages of Ardeche. He would have been a massive hero for us. The volatile spoilt Marseille fans of the 90s were probably not able to appreciate such a great player as much as the Scottish fans. Glad he had his fame with a team that plays in green with a great fan base eventually. We have a saying in french "nul n'est prophete en son pays", which means you are sometimes becoming a hero far from home. Thanks for this documentary,

[@Samuel-nh5ws]

T es dans 1 film avec ton club de mort Sauzee c est 1 légende a l OM quelle frappe il avait et polyvalent

[@runningsuperska]

Damn, Marseille were well dodgy! Jean Pierre Papin was always banging the goals in, when I watched Transworld Sport.

[@flashbackfootball1367]

That's the bold Bernard's influence. He did assemble a rediculous squad though and Papin was a beast.

[@moussetache1815]

@@flashbackfootball1367 JPP was and kind of still is my idol, as far as strikers go. He always did the job, and in a fantastic way.

[@nicolasaubertin4949]

So glad that you made this video about a great player of my childhood, I didn't know exactly his career since he left France so thank you for getting me to know it :-)

[@melanineyedoc]

Your videos are excellently produced!!! Please keep up the good work.

[@thunderchildSCO]

Was lucky enough to watch Sauzee at my club Hibs. A class act on and off the pitch, treated terribly by an inept chairman and the board of directors.

[@Hercules_88]

Your videos are class. I didn't have cable tv back then. as a Celtic fan i just saw him when i was in pub & was Hibs v Celtic or Hibs v Rangers. I didnt realise how good he was. He was magic.

[@gillescoin2374]

AT LAST a story about the one who was almost as good as the Kaiser, Sauzée ! ; )

[@mcpopothenono]

Wow! As a Olympique de Marseille fan, I can only thank you for the wonderful job you did in this video. There is only one Sauzée!

[@whoppersupper3970]

Brilliant that's my Friday night sorted,well done on your footage and story telling and being to find all these video archive man,I salute you

[@seanhibs1093]

What a legend🇳🇬 favourite hibs team with him and Latapy. A joy to watch

[@Nostalgirondins-hy5rg]

Amazing work! It was great looking at Sauzée's career. Thanks for bringing back so many good old memories!

[@PatrickIS-mb2hr]

What about a video about Rui Costa, Bixente Lizarazu, Sidney Govou or Ludovic Guily ? Cause these guys are legends but no one ever talks about them

[@alba..8479]

Because most are about players that played in Scotland

[@jasoncorr4619]

So strange I was thinking about Lizarazu yesterday

[@christophergallagher3845]

They have no link to scotland

[@alba..8479]

Aye they did all there grandads or great grandads where Scottish

[@micknellis9549]

@@christophergallagher3845 weer aw jock tamsins bairns my man.

[@NereoSal]

When Sauzée signed with my hometown team Atalanta it didn't go well, we got relegated actually, but I've always liked his career as a footballer especially the time he spent in Scotland. Great video!

[@alexwatson4971]

Another great video- really love your work on this channel! One day it would be great to see a video on Claudio Caniggia's time at Dundee and Rangers

[@Glasgow-Gary]

Another great video. I've been watching since the first one and they keep getting better. Keep it up.

[@flashbackfootball1367]

Respect for sitting throught the first ones pal coz they were a bit rough. Just try and improve a little bit every video.

[@JS-rm2ws]

I remember this player from his Hibernian days. I love it when a player comes and really gives it a go and and pushes Rangers and Celtic hard

[@catherinewilson4551]

Amazing research and archive footage! Brilliant channel.

[@loganlavaux6967]

l'un de nos meilleurs joueurs a l'OM ! Franckie la frappe ! avec Waddle et Deschamps on avaient un milieu de folie capable de gagner la C1 ! merci franckie forever !

[@jonathanmcroberts8549]

Another really brilliant video. And a complete Random subject. Brought me back to when I lived near Easter Rd when Sauzee was a Hibee.

[@Johnstone72]

What talent. I was beyond envious of Hibs signing Sauze.

[@Julien-wf5ms]

Un très grand joueur de l’OM et de l’équipe de France. Je ne savais pas qu’il avait laissé un si grand souvenir en Écosse. Je me souviens enfant, tout les gamins voulaient frapper les coups francs comme Sauzée.

[@markhutchinson5857]

You're good at this! Jumped the turnstiles at Easter Rd, a fair few times to watch Frank. He was clearly the best player on the pitch, in every game, including Celtic and the now defunct "rangers'

[@thomasharter8161]

In English and German there is no C in Frank but in French this first name is written with a C Franck

[@hernan5940]

This was so good....great job and Sauzee, I remember him well but did not know he ended up playing at Hibs

[@waynew77]

Thanks for the vidéo ! From a Marseille fan

[@Tykryzyx8]

Sauzée also was one of the two commentators of the French version of the FIFA game for nearly 10 years, quitting in 2016

[@MrBunney91]

I don’t know if you do requests but here goes; Please do a video on Jorge ‘El Magico’ Gonzalez, such an outstanding player who doesn’t get close to the respect he deserves. Judging by your past videos you will absolutely love him too if you aren’t familiar with him!

[@philidert73]

OM fan here. He used to be one of my favorites back when i was a kid.

[@havennewbowtow8835]

Up there wi the likes of Stanton, Duncan etc. Absolute class act, as a baller and a man. Cheers big man.

[@mijo3409]

French football enthusiast over here. Waiting your video about Lionel Charbonnier.

[@amc2004uk]

I remember being at a Kilmarnock v Rangers game at Rugby Park I was in the away end a few rows down from Lionel Charbonnier, Killie brought on Christophe Cocard and played the French national anthem, Charbonnier was standing up like a band conductor while all the Gers fans in the stand were singing along to La Marseillaise.

[@jamiemacpherson6115]

Absolutely love your videos mate! Keep up the good work, I’m buzzing when I get a notification saying you’ve posted a new one

[@ErikDeNiroDUB]

Excellent videos as always

[@88pampa]

FANTASTIC PRODUCTION!

[@bitcoingang9743]

Frenchmen are always heroic!

[@CHALETARCADE]

I'm French, and I have no clue as to what you mean.🤨

[@BigAndyK]

I knew his unbeaten run against us was coming up, 6-2 was at Easter Road, but he is up there with Larsson and Laudrup as the best overseas players in Scottish Football, and has my respect.

[@wavyboysmith9179]

Another great and extremely well researched and put together video. Great work as always!

[@guillaumeheinrich9668]

One of my favourite players when I started supporting Strasbourg as a kid. I could also see Zitelli's shirt on the pictures. Great striker in Strasbourg but don't know if he was successfull at Hibs.

[@caeserromero3013]

Waddle's nickname at OM was 'Magic Chris'....however, even though he had 'Magical skill', apparently the nickname was due to his having video tapes of the Paul Daniels Magic Show sent to him from England to alleviate his home-sickness 🤣🤣

[@flashbackfootball1367]

I really hope that's true 🤣

[@justablokepostingfunvids7137]

Fitba was wild back then in scotland genuinely anyone could show up from real Madrid c players coming to livingston to champions league and World Cup winners to hibs lol

[@Midtable1881]

Excellent video. May I recommend a future video on Sylvian Wiltord?

[@lucqq3792]

i luv this channel

[@starsky8614]

Love the videos mate. Would be cool to see one about the Inverness Merger of 1994!

[@tonydeb6793]

Franck was my favorite player in Marseille

[@RangersDubai]

would love to see some more career stories of some other cult heroes from Scottish clubs like maybe Nadir Çiftçi for Dundee United the foreign ones are always very interesting. A career story of GMS could also be very interesting, a Brazilian stuck in a Scotsman’s body just like Davie Cooper!

[@borisjackson3208]

Hey Mate, your videos are great, and enjoy tactical elements you fold in and wanted to ask if not to much would you do a video on Paul McStay at all ? Am a late 90s early naughties Celtic supporter myself but I'd love to learn how good he was but how unlucky he was also, especially under Tommy, god rest his soul 😢

[@Keddeadkedemption]

Excellent video as always

[@trisdj]

How about a video on the Trinidad 06 team and their Scottish connections? Marvin Andrews , Jason Scotland, Colin Samuel, a fair few of that famous team found their feet in the SPL! 🇹🇹

[@jean-michelspermufle9888]

remarkable work

[@willcomrie2853]

From a neutral: Sauzee, what a fucking player

[@Nicolas-nv7xh]

Brilliant job thx

[@jamesmac7523]

Love the channel. Keep up the good work

[@59DGO59]

The way you pronounced Lens 😂

[@welshhibby]

I was at most of these Hibs games !

[@larrydavid6852]

This channel is great

[@TheKalaxis]

Sauzee's skills were saucy

[@noelostetter8236]

Hi, I just discovered the video and just a little correction In 1988 against sochaux, Metz won their second coupe de France not their first 😉

[@ijhijh]

cracking vid, well done

[@ashp1434]

Great video pal. You do sound a lot like a younger Graham Souness

[@moussetache1815]

05:19 Georges Weah, future President of Liberia and father of USA player Timothy Weah.

[@tinu7551]

And future ballon d'or winner.

[@thebhoyciebus]

This channel gets better and better. Be great to have you on our channel for a chat sometime. Keep up great work!

[@Aoi_Fans]

Ageing cult heroes who play in Scotland in green. What about a Lubomír Moravčík video, he was some player.

[@TheoPhim]

Great player in ligue 1 with Saint Étienne (also in green)

[@Hercules_88]

Mind Dundee had Ravanelli & Canniggia. The spending got a bit mental.

[@JoeBhoy1967]

Didn’t the boy who signed them end up going down for war crimes or something mental? 😂😂

[@Hercules_88]

@@JoeBhoy1967 thats right. He was a mad rogue lawyer who defended War Criminals.

[@boisesoccer]

From the title of the video, I thought the guy started an occult of some sort😂

[@Bubulles1977]

Musique erik satie, magnifique.

[@smallies7154]

dude had such an irish head on him ☘☘

[@tangfastic7075]

Did you not know..... Scotland is the birthplace of football. And the fans are the best in the world ....so they keep telling us.

[@vynil57]

Metz won for the 2nd time the French Cup vs Sochaux in 1988 (and not for the 1st time). But thanks for your content

[@flashbackfootball1367]

Yeah you're right enough, sorry for the mistake.

[@karimremini4517]

Hey, ça va les messins hein ! Sochaux have won things eversince also 😅

[@a34rwl]

Being successful in Scottish football is like being the Greek skiing champion

[@Mr13Ganache]

He's also a great guy irl

[@Autisticsenses]

Alan shearer ? Gazza ? Peter beadsley ? James milner ? Tino asprilla ? Obafemi martins ?

[@robtaylor4652]

Sorry pal... Le God is Matt Le Tissier Do your research! We will accept an update to this video & a formal apology... There is only one Le God 😂🎉

[@bruno-baptistelaunay6313]

Trainer tard sur youtube . voir sa ville sur youtube . apprendre que franck sauzé est né dans cette ville !

[@drewdrosos6648]

Please do a video on Enzo Francescoli 🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾

[@nc2933]

Hibs went from Le God to Adam Le Fondre

[@connorsmith4366]

Can you do a video on prso I believe his name js

[@SaudiGod]

Do a video on Djalminha

[@D_B_Cooper]

Madar.... a name from the (Everton) past!

[@YouTubeID404]

Kaiser Sauzée

[@wraithyoshidj6702]

1:08 bro what are you talking about? He scored less than. 30 per match.

[@flashbackfootball1367]

from midfield, 8-10 goals is a good return...

[@adrianmcardle85]

A video about helicopter sunday

[@flashbackfootball1367]

Pretty sure I mentioned it and did a kinda cinematic montage of helicopter Sunday in one of my videos, the Paul Le Guen one maybe 🤔

[@dominiquedourneau7425]

Le god…juste pour dire mais en englais ..court pour god…michet

[@Pete-l8o]

Where do you find all this footage?!?!

[@flashbackfootball1367]

KZbin and google mainly, just have to go through the matches/highlights to find what you're looking for which is what takes a decent chunk of time.

[@Pete-l8o]

@@flashbackfootball1367 well, I certainly appreciate your time in making these videos. I am a Rangers fan so especially enjoyed the Brian Laudrup one you did. It was cracking learning g and seeing what his time before Rangers was like.

[@eliphaslevi7154]

The Kaiser

[@ErenJager_]

1 - The corruption for Marseille is only for OM-VA a common match of league 1 (to avoid that the players are injured) and Marseille has been condemned. 2 - No real proof of corruption for the CL, the quotes from players are not proof, nobody buys Berlusconi the richest man in Italy, lots of allegations and defamation but not real proof and this why Marseille keep the CL and has never been condemned.

[@rico7128]

So true it's a fact and also Jean jacque Eydelie said for the French daily l'Equipe, which published Eydelie's statements: "There was a time when I made a lot of money from libel suits, in 1999 alone. I must have won 8 or 9 of them." It's shame to lie like that, especially since he tried to promote and sell his book with this false story.

[@rico7128]

His former team-mates were quick to react "It's really inappropriate and a load of rubbish, why talk about it now? Jocely Angloma was astonished, and also Franck Sauzée, a consultant on Canal +, was distressed "I sleep well every night, and my conscience is clear. It seems easy to talk like that 12 years later. I think Jean-Jacques is mainly looking for a source of income with this book. I tell myself that to act like that, you have to be in very bad shape as a human being," explains the former Marseille midfielder.