Maxime Lestienne on his role at Standard: "I am not a substitute for anyone"

L the four years he has just spent abroad, at FC Genoa, PSV Eindhoven, Rubin Kazan and Malaga, have inevitably changed, just as the terrible misfortunes that have marked his career as a man, with the loss of his father, then his mother, six weeks apart, at the end of 2015. The carefree young man that he was leaving Bruges for Qatar and the Al Arabi club in the summer of 2014, for more than 7 million euros, became an accomplished adult. "I have two children and almost three (sic)", says the Mouscronnois. "I grew up and gained a lot of maturity …"