Olympique de Marseille host Olympique Lyonnais, Sunday February 28, at the end of the 27th day of Ligue 1 football. This match will have a very special flavor due to the context and the upheavals that have occurred at the head of OM this weekend.
>> Marseille: Jacques-Henri Eyraud leaves the presidency, Jorge Sampaoli appointed coach
AAround the Vélodrome stadium, the banners and tags against Jacques-Henri Eyraud are still present and the supporters, like Antho, do not regret the attack on the training center last month, which led to the departure of the president of OM. “Cis a victory for supporters, he said. It wasn’t all for nothing. That’s what we remember. We had our little reward. “
De big changes in the organizational chart are therefore acts. The director athletic Pablo Longoria bECOMES President and Jorge Sampaoli arrive in so much that coach. Marseille is not decidedly not a club as the other. Jerome Alonzo, former guardian of OM and PSG, now consultant France Info, the knows good : “Marseille is part of the French football heritage”.
“There is no boss at OM and this boss is taking the measure of his task.”
Jerome Alonzo
to franceinfo
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For the former goalkeeper, Franck McCourt did not make these decisions only to respond to the sling of supporters. “Did he crack under the pressure? I don’t think so, I just think he figured out where he set foot“, estimates Jérôme Alonzo.
Four years and demi after to have purchased the club, Franck McCourt propose a new departure. Non not to the supporters, most at all the people Marseilles. And this is not not of all the same, according to the sociologist Nicolas Hourcade. “This event proves that a football club is more than a business. It is obviously a company, he explains. Obviously, there are economic and financial issues, but it is also a cultural good. “
“The club is part of history. It is part of the identity of the city.”
Nicolas Hourcade
to franceinfo
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For the sociologist, “the challenge now is to ensure that he can express himself constructively so that everyone is a winner in the process.” Le owner American will come in the next days meet elected, leaders and supporters, at priori here at Velodrome, at Marseilles. This is for Mathieu Boutros, former player and supporter of loon, of gages of good conduct. “There were even banners in America, he explains. It’s normal that he comes to see the supporters. A new president, a new coach. The president knows the ball and knows where we’re going. Apparently, he wants to give money back so he is raising the esteem of Marseille supporters. “.
Mback these last wait of see especially the beginnings of new coach Argentinian Jorge Sampaoli, here could arrive, murmur-t-on here, then of the venue at Marseille of Franck McCourt.
Foot OM The fans’ victory, the report by Alexandre Vau
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