A true guardian of the faith. Emblematic goalkeeper of the Racing Club de Lens in the 1990s, Guillaume Warmuz, 1998 French champion, is now a man of the Church.
Since 2010, Bourguignon has been chaplain near Montceau-les-Mines, in Saône-et-Loire. In 2021, the former A’ international goalkeeper (3 selections) confided to one of our reporters how two injuries, one in 1996 and the other in 2006, had led him towards a new spiritual life.
It is a certain Guillaume Warmuz who reads the book of the prophet Ézékiel before Pope Leo XIV at the Louis-II stadium, on the occasion of the sovereign pontiff’s visit to Monaco. #rclens #asmonaco pic.twitter.com/njZs5DGJbP
— Jérémie Bernigole (@Bernigoal) March 28, 2026
Having played for Arsenal, Dortmund, but also AS Monaco where he ended his career in 2007, the former footballer was able to link his two lives during an emotional moment this Saturday March 28.
On the occasion of the coming to the principality of Pope Leo XIV, Guillaume Warmuz participated in the high mass organized in the Louis II enclosure, which he knows well. The former Lensois captain read the book of Ezekiel in front of the sovereign pontiff, the princely family and a crowd of 15,000 people.
