Alexandre Letellier, a goalkeeper who came up through the Paris Saint-Germain youth system, opened up to L’Équipe about the two biggest regrets of his career. Between the loss of his father before his return to the club and his departure just before the Champions League victory, the former goalkeeper recounts these quiet but profound wounds.
Letellier: “I was disappointed inside not to experience it with them, but incredibly happy for them and for the club.”
“What is your biggest regret?”
“I have two: the first is that my father didn’t get to see me return to Paris, because he passed away before.
And the second is leaving a year too soon, because I didn’t experience that Champions League victory (he left the club in June 2024, at the end of his contract). I was happy for them, truly, I wasn’t bitter.”
I was secretly disappointed not to experience it with them, but incredibly happy for them and for the club, especially knowing how many years they’d been waiting for this. I went to the match in Munich, I was able to go onto the pitch with the players, congratulate them, and then go to the hotel with them. Just being able to experience a little bit of that with them, like that, was already huge.
Alexandre Letellier was never the star who made the Parc des Princes tremble, but he embodied something Paris doesn’t find in statistics: visceral loyalty. Long the third-choice goalkeeper, often invisible, he never sought to be anything other than a soldier for Paris Saint-Germain, his beloved club.
Away from the spotlight, he wore the jersey with a mindset that coaches adore and that fans silently respect: always ready, never a harsh word, always there for the locker room. This unbreakable bond with Paris makes his regret all the greater: missing out on the 2024/2025 Champions League by a single step, when he would have loved to celebrate this historic moment with “his” sporting family. Letellier didn’t have the flashiest career, but he had what many will never have: a pure, almost romantic loyalty to PSG.
