Le Carré magique

It was just magnificent
La Platine, Gigi Giresse
Completing the Magic Square
Don Tigana, Luis Fernández

“Magic because there was an understanding,
"Each one of us knew what we had to do,
"I couldn’t play like Platini,
"And he couldn’t play like me (too)

"Giresse couldn’t play like me,
"Nor could I play like him,
"But Platini needed Fernandez"
La Petit bonhomme sang the hymn

"Fernández needed Tigana,
"Giresse & Platini" (the stealth)
"And everyone knew that the Carre Magique
"Was France’s great strength"

The heart of French football
Quartet that fashioned "Le carré magique"
All star awesome foursome
C'était juste magnifique

Number 7
(c) Emdad Rahman
www.football-poems.com

Inspired by "Football’s Greatest" by Sky Sport. This is the feature on Michel Platini. I was enthralled by the Luiz Fernández  interview sequence where he spoke about one of the most formidable midfield foursomes in footballing history, "Le carré magique" - the Magic Square formed by Platini, Giresse, Tigana & Fernández . 

(PIC CREDIT): 15 Nov 1985, Jouy-en-Josas, France --- Michel Platini, Luis Fernandez, Jean Tigana, and Alain Giresse of the French Soccer Team. --- Image by © Bernard Bisson/Sygma/Corbis © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.