Interview with David GINOLA, football player, who believes that money is a necessity in the football world, which he expresses quite directly: "Even if I hear a lot of people talking about sports ethics it’s bulshit. If you look at the big engines like Milan, they won everything. You need to know what you want, win or participate."
Some European football clubs have gone public. In France, communication groups were the first to express their interest in football clubs. Thus, the Pathé group decided to invest a hundred million francs in the Olympique Lyonnais club. The club has just made a heavy investment by buying player Steed Malbranque For Jean-Michel AULAS, President of Olympique Lyonnais, it was a collective act with Pathé investors about the cost of this new player.
Meeting between the two legendary football players, Eric Cantona and Diego Maradona, at the "intercontinental" hotel in Paris, on the occasion of the creation of an international players' union. Eric Cantona rebels against the business side of football.
Interview with Michel Hidalgo, former boss of the French team, who is shocked by the disproportionate place that money has taken in football. For him money can be motor, as destructive, and besides excess destroys some players. Some players are well paid because of their short careers, but others are overpaid in a world where people are in misery. He tackles in passing some club leaders that he compares to business leaders.