There, he signed up with the Racing Club de France, a famous sports club, and began calling himself Alain.[21] He would also train at the Bois de Boulogne and he worked as a waiter in a café-bar at the Racing Club de France, which was then located at the Bois de Boulogne.[22] In October 2002 and March 2012, Mimoun spoke of his difficult return to civilian life, "I was a café waiter. I did not have enough to eat.