For most people, football is competitions, stratospheric salaries and gigantic stadiums but not for Tronchet, a Sunday footballer certainly, but totally devoted to his passion.
A fan's story
Published on January 20, 2021 by Delcourt, Footballeur du Dimanche by Tronchet is the biography of a passion. This volume follows his ode to cycling and, through a classic organization of one joke per page, the reader discovers the hard life of these passionate amateurs. Nothing is going well: neither the field, nor the outfit, but the passion surpasses all these difficulties. He played on every field – near a cemetery or surrounded by slopes. To describe the feelings that this sport gives him, he refers at the same time to Zweig and Zidane. Tronchet took the opportunity to respond to the excessive criticism of his sport and the public. For him, this sport offers the impossible because men go beyond their stereotypes : a racist plays with an Arab, a poor man's son can beat a rich man … Even though professional sport has misused his sport, the author religiously watches national team games with cheerful bad faith. Indeed, as he knew as a child and teenager only one France loser, he finds it normal to always support his team. 
The biography of a footballer
This theme is also a good opportunity to tell your memories. The reader discovers him as a child dribbling alone or indoors because the star of the playground is the crazy dribbler more than the good student. In Footballer du Dimanche, a self-portrait is drawn by clues gleaned over the many jokes. Football evokes for him childhood memories, matches with friends and a renewed passion every Sunday. From birth, Tronchet already saw his baby with a football jersey. So he was thrilled when his son asked to join the club and made us laugh by describing himself as a caricature of fathers on the side of the field. Tronchet is a very bad player and admits it from the foreword but these shortcomings do not prevent him from being addicted to football. This sport allows him to be ten years old again and sees the end of a match as a pain compared to death. He is so addicted to these white lines that, when the coach asks him, he cannot leave the field to leave his place. He wants to surpass himself rather than beat the other team. Sunday footballer, a potpourri of moments of life around the amateurism of Tronchet's memories and his still current passion. The reader is touched by this lively passion and by the many arguments he uses to defend amateur football and professional matches. We often smile at his bad faith but we are totally won over by his humanist vision of the world. However, we hope that, in a second volume, it will also highlight women's football… If you like atypical stories, we advise you to read the chronicles of The Brain Flight and Valhalla Hotel.
