On his 95th birthday, Louis and Augustin, two of his grandchildren, gave him a lovely drawing. It is displayed on the door of his living room and, inevitably, there is a scapular on it. In large. Jean Pasquier, born in 1928, dashing despite his decades of experience, has supported the Girondins since he was a kid. His gray mustache still twitches just as his eyes light up when he…
On his 95th birthday, Louis and Augustin, two of his grandchildren, gave him a lovely drawing. It is displayed on the door of his living room and, inevitably, there is a scapular on it. In large. Jean Pasquier, born in 1928, dashing despite his decades of experience, has supported the Girondins since he was a kid. His gray mustache still twitches just as his eyes light up when he remembers the prosperous years of Aimé Jacquet, citing the Battiston, Trésor, Tigana and of course Giresse, who made the sunny days of Parc Lescure. While the sports venue celebrates its centenary this Tuesday, May 14, Jean Pasquier has lived a good part of his long and beautiful history.
Alongside collector’s posters, a few tickets, yellowed by time, line the wall of one of his rooms: the 1996 final of the UEFA Cup against Bayern or the 2002 final of the League Cup at the Stade de France against Lorient. Lescure, he remembers being there very young, at a time that those under 90 cannot have known. In his chair, his hands sometimes clinging to his walker, he remembers having attended at the legendary Brazil-Czechoslovakia match at the 1938 World Cupalso nicknamed the “Battle of Bordeaux”, which confined so many players from both teams to butchery on a stretcher…
Living memory
Born in 1928 in a house on Boulevard George-V, Jean Pasquier is one of those living memories of the Port de la Lune who lived notably the bombing of the German submarine base in the current Bassins à Flots district in 1943 : the young man then took refuge in the cellars of the Montaigne high school, where he was attending school. A sales representative, working in particular from the alleys of Tourny, Jean Pasquier was also a tireless volunteer within the Red Roosters club for thirty-eight years. “He has always been a sports fan and he passed the virus on to his two boys as well as his grandchildren,” says his son Patrick Pasquier, wearing a Girondins jersey.
In Lescure, the nonagenarian attended stage finishes of the Tour de France. He remembers Jean Lalanne, this great long-distance runner who broke the French 10,000 meter record in Bordeaux in 1942, or King Pelé, who came with Santos, four decades later. He started his subscription to the Girondins de Bordeaux in the 1970s and renewed it season after season until the beginning of the “Matmut. » If he can no longer go to the stadium, he continues to follow each Gigis match in front of his television set, regretting that they are not “more aggressive”: “We have to strengthen the defense, then we wonder what some players came to Bordeaux…”
He will celebrate his 96th birthday in July. “If the good Lord grants me life, I will be a hundred years old,” he concludes, with a big smile. Like his friend, Parc Lescure, with whom he experienced so many adventures.