Is there still bad blood between Patrice Evra and Christophe Dugarry? | OneFootball

There seems no love is lost between a pair of former French national team players. On Wednesday, L’Équipe reported that Patrice Evra, who’d captained Les Bleus at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, will serve as a consultant for the RMC programme Rothen s’enflamme‘, hosted by another former French international, Jérôme Rothen.

Evra will join his former AS Monaco teammate turned host three times a month to discuss the world of football; however, the five-time Premier League champion with Manchester United had some terms to his deal.

The man born in Sénégal will not be debating Christophe Dugarry, another regular pundit on RMC.

Since 2017, tensions have been high between Evra and the former World Cup winner for France in 1998.

In April 2017, Evra did an interview with his ex-teammate William Gallas, where he fired back at Dugarry, who’d been critical of Evra since joining Olympique de Marseille in January of that year.

During the interview, Evra took aim at the former Marseille and Girondins de Bordeaux striker, saying ‘I think he’s the only person on earth who knows how many pubic hairs Zinédine Zidane has on his family jewels,” said Evra.

Zidane and Dugarry are longtime friends and teammates who played together at Bordeaux and the French senior team.

Evra added, “My brother told me, ‘You have to deal with [Dugarry]. If he has a problem with me, let him come to Marseille’,”

“We talk about it, we discuss it, there’s no problem. I respect him … he’s a world champion and a European champion.”

The fact that he won’t ever be on RMC with Dugarry, however, suggests he still has a problem with the 52-year-old, who earned 55 caps with Les Bleus and was a part of their Euro 2000-winning squad.

Interestingly, Rothen also took aim at Evra in the past, confirming that he’d filed a complaint against him in 2019.

That stemmed from alleged homophobic remarks made by Evra against Paris Saint-Germain, the club Rothen played for after leaving the Principality.

Their differences, though, have been apparently ironed out with the two-time Champions League winner confirming in his book ‘I Love This Game’ that he’d apologised to Rothen.

GFFN | Joel Lefevre