Match boots issued/worn by Platini during his Nancy experience, 1978/1979 season.

The 1978/79 season marked a turning point in Michel Platini’s career: it was the year when the raw talent of the boy from Joeuf merged with the maturity of a leader. His final campaign with Nancy—the club that had nurtured him—became a rite of passage: not just a move toward the brighter lights of Saint-Étienne, but the moment when Platini was truly crowned the emotional and technical beacon of French football.

Just a few months earlier, he had already touched the sky. In May 1978, Platini led Nancy to the Coupe de France final. On the pitch of the Parc des Princes, wearing the captain’s armband, Michel scored the decisive goal against Nice, handing Nancy its first major trophy. That night, the trophy was handed to him by none other than the President of the Republic, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. It was the moment French football realised it had a number 10 capable not only of creating beauty, but of leading an entire team with clarity, class, and courage.

But leadership, as we know, is forged in the storm.

At the World Cup in Argentina, Les Bleus were eliminated in the group stage. Platini became the lightning rod for public frustration. Greeted with whistles and doubt, he answered with character, every criticism turned into inner fuel.

In the league, against Saint-Étienne, the team that would soon become his next home, he delivered a performance full of pride, until a brutal ankle injury cut his season short and denied him a shot at the Cup Winners’ Cup. Yet the fire inside never dimmed.

And meanwhile, another jersey was starting to shape his destiny: the Bleus of France.

At the start of 1979, head coach Michel Hidalgo handed Platini the national team captaincy. The boy had become a man: with the armband tight on his sleeve and his vision sharper than ever, Platini began a new era for French football, a journey that would ultimately lead to Euro 1984, but whose roots were planted firmly in this very season.

That shirt, that number 10, that armband, everything began here.

This memorabilia is part of the match supply made available to players during official competitions and is different in its features in relation to the ones sold in fanshops, it could have been worn during the match and washed after the end of the match or prepared for the match but then not used.

The boots have an exclusive personalization for the player on the back and on the side.

Technical details:

• Sponsor Hunga
• Made in France
• 6-point studs