AS Saint-Etienne : a legend from the Greens talks about the Robert Herbin myth | ASSE News

There were many testimonies from former Greens at the time of Robert Herbin’s death on April 27. It must be said that the Sphinx had marked three decades of AS Saint-Etienne, as a player from 1957 to 1972 then as a coach, from 1972 to 1983 and from 1987 to 1990. The memory of Rachid Mekhloufi was missing, who has was his partner in 1957-58 and from 1963 to 1968. He arrived in the columns of Dauphiné Libéré.

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“He was very smart on and off the pitch”

“At the beginning he was not very strong and he had to work to be titular. Roby was a boy who did not give himself much, except on the field. He was very shy, reserved, distant even, but be careful. , we all loved him! Between us, there was a great understanding from the start. We passed and passed the ball, we scored goals, we had a lot of fun. He was very intelligent on and off the pitch. . He loved football, he was impressive. “