TOULOUSE, Faransa – Pantxi Sirieix, tsohon dan wasan Toulouse FC (TFC), ya tuna da mafi munin lokaci a cikin aikinsa na wasa, lokacin da TFC ta sha kashi a hannun Guingamp a wasan kusa da na karshe na Coupe de France a shekara ta 2009.
A ranar 22 ga Afrilu, 2009, TFC, wacce ta kare a matsayi na hudu a gasar Ligue 1, ta sha kashi da ci 2-1 a hannun Guingamp, wacce ke cikin Ligue 2 a lokacin. Sirieix, wanda ya kasance cikin tawagar a wancan lokacin, ya ce abin ya kasance mafi munin abin da ya faru a aikinsa na wasa.
“Na tuna da fushi da na ji bayan wasan. Wannan shine kadai nadama da nake da shi a aikina. Har yanzu ina jin wannan motsin rai,” in ji Sirieix a cikin wata hira da aka yi da shi a ofishinsa a cikin garin Toulouse.
Ya kara da cewa, “Bayan wasan, ban koma gida ba. Na yi tafiya a cikin mota, na tsaya da karfe uku na safe, na dauki daki a otel. Ina tsammanin a Labège ne. Ina da mutane a gida, amma ban so in yi magana da kowa ba. Ban damu da abin da zan yi ba. Ina jin fushi, ina son in karya komai.”
Sirieix ya kuma bayyana cewa, “Mutane suna tunanin cewa mun yi wasan cikin kwanciyar hankali, amma a gaskiya ba haka bane. Guingamp sun yi wasa sosai a wannan dare. Mun yi rashin nasara, amma dole ne a ce Guingamp sun yi wasa mai kyau.”
Ya kuma ambaci wasu ‘yan wasan TFC na lokacin, kamar Cédric Carrasso, André-Pierre Gignac, da Étienne Capoue, wadanda suka taka rawar gani a wannan kakar wasa. Duk da haka, Sirieix ya ce, “A kan filin wasa, na tuna cewa mun yi kallon juna tare da Étienne Didot, ba tare da magana ba, muna tunanin abu daya. Guingamp sun yi wasa sosai, suna yin triangle, suna motsawa da sauri.”
Sirieix ya kuma yi tunanin Jacqui Teulières, wanda ya kasance intendant na TFC tsakanin shekarun 1986 zuwa 2020. “Yana jin dadin zuwa Stade de France… Rashin ba shi wannan dama, tare da duk abin da ya yi mana, ya kasance mai wuya,” in ji Sirieix.
A shekara ta 2023, Damien Comolli, wani jami’in TFC, ya gayyaci Sirieix don halartar wasan karshe na Coupe de France, inda TFC ta doke Nantes. Sirieix ya ce wannan ya taimaka masa ya kwantar da hankali game da abin da ya faru a shekara ta 2009. “Ba zan manta da wannan rashin nasara ba, amma wannan ya taimaka mini dan kadan,” in ji Sirieix.
