ΕΙΠΑΜΕ Ο ΓΑΒΡΙΛΗΣ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΤΡΕΛΟ ΤΟ ΠΑΙΔΙ... ΟΤΑΝ ΒΑΡΙΕΤΑΙ, ΘΕΛΕΙ ΝΑ ΦΟΡΑΕΙ ΚΟΚΚΙΝΑ ή... ΤΕΛΟΣ ΠΑΝΤΩΝ, ΔΙΑΒΑΣΤΕ ΤΙ ΚΥΡΙΩΣ ΘΑ ΓΟΥΣΤΑΡΕ ΩΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΑ ΡΟΥΧΑ

Εγώ, σύγγαυροι, τον Τζιμπρίλ (= Γαβριήλ) Σισέ τον πάω, διότι είναι παιχτούρα, διότι έπαιξε μπάλλα στη Λίβερπουλ και στον Ολυμπιακό Μασσαλίας και διότι είναι μουράκλα. Άσε που λατρεύει το κόκκινο! Καμμιά φορά φοράει και πράσινα, καμμιά φορά και τίποτα. Δεν θα περάσουμε άσχημα μαζί του - θυμηθείτε το!


*********************

Παλιά συνέντευξη του ποδοσφαιριστή και ντιζάινερ Djibril Cissé, όταν έπαιζε ακόμα στη Λίβερπουλ.

HOW I GET DRESSED

I've always loved clothes. I used to borrow my older brother's, even if they were too big. I'd take his jeans, roll up the legs, and fasten my belt really tight around my waist. I'd take his T-shirts, jackets and hats. It was partly that I wanted to have something belonging to him - but also that I wanted to be more fashionable than everyone else my age.
Growing up in Arles, I always stood out as a child. My hair was not out there like it is now - but my clothes were definitely different. My mother is originally from Ivory Coast so perhaps she influenced my dress. You know African people, they like to be fashionable even if they don't have a lot of money - they love to have good clothes, designer stuff. My mother always wore a boubou - a traditional African dress. It's a one-piece smock and it's very colourful. My mother still brings me African clothes when she goes back to Ivory Coast.
When I joined the football academy in Auxerre, the fashion thing really took off for me. I was 15 years old. My coach at Auxerre was Guy Roux; he was like a father to me, but he was quite old-fashioned. He was always making jokes about my clothes. Sometimes I'd wear camouflage army trousers and he'd take the piss and say: 'Are you going to war today?'
Here at Liverpool it's Stevie G [Steven Gerrard] who teases me about my clothes. Sometimes I go to the showers, and when I come back he's wearing my clothes. I have funny underwear, like zebra print, so he puts on my underpants and walks around the dressing room. All the players tease me about my shoes. I like pointy shoes, snakeskin pointy shoes. But I think I have influenced some of the Liverpool guys in their choice of dress. They're less shy to try out different styles now.
Footballers are more adventurous with their clothes these days, but I've always worn what I want, so for me nothing's changed. I understand that people can be shocked by what I choose to wear - it's unusual, so people talk about it. Maybe they think it's too much. People seem to think that I dress the way I do to be noticed, but it's not because I'm a famous footballer - I have dressed this way, since I was young. People who know me, they understand that. In the South of France we like to be fashionable - even more so than in Paris. For me, fashion is defined by the South - we can wear vests in September, while in Paris they're already wearing jumpers. It's a completely different mentality. There were a lot of black people where I lived when I was growing up. I never felt that I stood out particularly. I think it's easier for a black guy to wear more colourful things than a white guy. I'm not sure how to explain that, and I don't mean anything racist. I just think it's easier for dark people to wear colour.
My style is all about confidence. To wear a long skirt like the one I wore to collect my Player of the Year award in France a few years ago - you have to be confident. I had a lot of phone calls afterwards from designers wanting me to do fashion shows. In the French newspapers they had a lot of photos of me, but there was no criticism. I don't understand why people were so shocked to see David Beckham wearing a sarong. Personally I think it's a good thing, I like that style.
If I could be anyone for a day I'd be a woman. I'd like to know what it feels like. If I was a woman I'd wear sexy clothes. Short skirts, high boots - that sort of thing.
I am always changing my mood, so I am always changing my hair. I get bored and think: 'Today, I want to be red,' or: 'Today, I want to be blue'. I'm going to have to stop all this as I get older though. After you have kids, you have to be more respectable, more serious.
I had my first tattoo - a rose - done five years ago. I've covered it up since because it was too small. I have wings on my back because my name is Djibril - the Muslim name for the Angel Gabriel. I have a spider web covering my elbow, my zodiac sign, Leo, in Chinese on my neck and some African masks up my right arm. I have my daughter's name on my neck, and I'm going to put my new baby's name across my right foot.
I created my own clothing range, Klubb 9, two years ago, when I was 22. It was something I'd thought about doing for a long time, probably since I was 10 or 11 years old. I created it because I was bored with having the same clothes as everybody else, I like to be different - not flashy but original. I take Klubb 9 seriously, but it's not my priority; it's mostly for fun, not for money.
There's definitely a contradiction between my image and my personality. I am not like my clothes - I'm quite the opposite. I'm calm, not crazy. Maybe it's a way of having a wild side but not having to live it. I like to be at home watching DVDs, I'm not a party boy like the papers would like to portray me.
My brothers dress like me now, because I give them clothes when I'm bored of them. Not old things, just clothes that I never wear. I give them to my older brother, so I guess our tradition has been reversed.


Πηγή: "The Observer", Sunday 9 April 2006.




******************

ΣΤΟ ΓΑΜΟ ΤΟΥ Η ΝΥΦΗ ΦΟΡΑΓΕ ΑΣΠΡΑ ΚΑΙ Ο ΙΔΙΟΣ ΚΟΚΚΙΝΑ!... ΩΡΑΙΟΣ!



Nom : Djibril Cissé
Date de naissance : 12/08/1981
à : Arles (Bouches du Rhône)
Taille : 1m82

Dernier d'une famille de sept enfants et originaire de la Côte d'Ivoire, Djibril tomba dans le foot dès petit ; il se prédestinait à exercer dans cet art, son père et ses frères ayant eux même évolué sur le terrain.
C'est au sein de l'Athlétique Club d'Arles qu'il a intégré que Mr Gilles et Jean-Louis Saez remarquent sa vitesse et son sens du but hors du commun. A 11 ans, Djibril signe à Nîmes où il va gravir tous les échelons sans beaucoup de difficultés, étant même surclassé de 13 en 15 ans. Nous sommes alors en 1995. Il intégrera dès l'âge de 14 ans une série de grands clubs. A son palmarès on note en 1999 la Coupe Gambardella (Coupe de France Junior) contre l'A.S Saint Etienne, le titre de Champion d'Europe alors âgé de 18 ans en Allemagne et un exploit de 6 buts lors de la coupe du Monde en Argentine.
En mai 2002, Djibril connaît sa toute première sélection en équipe de France. Il joue actuellement à Liverpool.
Côté cœur, Djibril épousa Jude en juin dernier (snif), petite particularité : alors que la mariée était en blanc, lui, était en rouge !

*****************

ΜΕ ΜΙΑ ΛΕΞΗ: "ΦΟΒΕΡΟΣ"