On the lawn of a Park of the Princes filled, under the eyes of a noisy and enthusiastic public, a balloon flies in the penalty area of famous Real of Madrid. The Paris-Saint-Germain disputes the match return of the quarterfinals of the Cup of the UEFA. The white balloon flies towards the head of Daniel Bravo, who given it without control towards a fellow-member posted to the input of the penalty area. The resumption in half-round is fantastic of power and of précision.Buyo, the Madrid goalkeeper, mystified, looks at, the ball which is placed under the transversal bar.
David Ginola, who is plenty of happyness in the middle of his
fellow-members, becomes finally star in his stage, his country and beyond the borders of France, become suddenly too exiguous. " El Magnifico ", as calls it a Spanish newspaper in its edition of the following day comes from birth. David, the fine young man, the elegant one, the Southerner with the singing accent and the ondoyant dribble, finally collects, on the highest level, the fruits of his work.
 
 David Ginola was born in Gassin in January 1967, within a family of sportsmen, " in the douceur", as he likes to entrust it, " not in the jungle of the existence ". A ball has to replace its teddybear evening to accompany its sleep by child. It learned even certainly how to juggle in its cradle, so much its technical ease splashes its first matches within its club with Sainte-Maxime. He can do everything: to dribble, to distribute, to draw and to score. All the balloons forward by the feet of this number 10, which adds up more than sixty goals at the end of its first season Poussins(junior)!
It is necessary to say that, since the age of 4 years, it tames all the plastic and leather balloons which pass to its range, in the schoolyard, the streets, on the range and behind the balustrades of the stage, while his father moves Sunday on the contiguous lawn. With the age of 14 years , he plays so that it lends its talent, like temporary of luxury, in the crested teams of the area. Thus one day of spring, an emissary of Milan AC knocks on the gate of the family house of Ginola with the firm intention to recruit a young wonder answering in the name of Eric Boyer! It is with this name of loan that this diabolic attacker was known to its players at the time of a Minimes tournament which was completed the day before. But the moment of the exile did not arrive yet for the young David Ginola, come to reinforce the large team of Saint Raphaël under false licence, that of truth Eric Boyer, requested to remain at the house: beautiful of substitution by the talent to be told with the accent of Pagnol.

The reputation of David, carried by the mistral, exceeds the borders of the gulf of Tropez Saint, and here soon with the OGC Nice, celebrates it close club, with the ambition of an eagle which will take its take-off. Unfortunately, its project be illusion, and the contact with the reality of adult be rude.He evolve in Division of Honor, with medium of old lags, which make not some gift with this angel fair, exceptionally gifted but well weak. And the sanction falls without call at the end of the season: not " training " contract for David, with whom his trainers niçois do not predict any professional future.