Par Victor Massias
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It is indisputably one of the biggest posters of the season. For any club Ligue 1, a trip to the Vélodrome is never trivial. Sunday October 8, 2023, at 1 p.m., HAC and Olympique de Marseille will meet as part of the eighth day of the championship.
They had not met since January 2012 and an OM victory (3-1) in the Coupe de France. Yet, the two clubs have more in common than it seems. In addition to representing the two largest ports in France, a host of players wore both jerseys.
The writing of 76 currently made one typical team.
The typical team of players who have passed through the HAC and OM. (©Montage 76actu)
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Steve Mandanda is a true legend of this team. “Il Fenomeno” is therefore necessarily the captain. Trained at HAC, the French world champion spent most of his career at Olympique de Marseille (more than 600 matches). It was finally under the colors of Stade Rennais that he returned to Ciel et Marine on August 27.
The defenders
« Jacky » Bonnevay : back to a time when the position of libero existed. Le Havre and Marseille are not the two cities where he will have made the biggest impression, but the defender will still have played more than 100 matches there combined. The last news was that he was assistant to Claude Puel at Leicester and Saint-Etienne.
Teddy Bertin : this is perhaps not the case for OM supporters, where he only played a meager season, but it is obvious that the current coach of Sporting Club de Toulon has left his mark on the history of the HAC . The Deschaseaux stadium still remembers his mule strike from a free kick.
Souleymane Diawara: it was in Le Havre (113 matches) that the superstition of his legendary pair of gloves was born, in 2000, during a match against… Marseille (164 matches). Refusing to remove his rings, the Senegalese puts on gloves. Victory 4-1. He will never leave his lucky charm.
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Henri Bedimo : in his lane, the Cameroonian was at one time one of the best full-backs in Ligue 1. He even won the championship in 2012, but it was neither with HAC nor with OM. It was with Montpellier.
Midfielders
Pope Gueye is the youngest member of the team. After three professional seasons in the oceanic city, the Senegalese left his training club to join another city, Marseille, this time.
Lassana Diarra: when you played with Cristiano Ronaldo and faced Lionel Messi, you can consider yourself an international class player. All with his nickname, “Lass” plastered on the back, Brazilian style. Imagine that this midfielder like no other was trained at HAC before playing for Real Madrid, Chelsea, Arsenal, PSG and OM.
The stat that freaks you out
The HAC has not beaten OM in the championship for 35 years, 5 months and 8 days. To find a Sky and Navy victory in Marseille, you even have to go back to… 1938!
Frédéric Brando : Obviously, the Brandos love ports. Between Frédéric, who plays 100 matches in Le Havre then 102 in Marseille, and Marlon, who bursts into the screen as a dockworker in the film On the docksThere is plenty to do !
The attackers
Cyrille Pouget: in the “Unusual Reconversion” genre, the former Le Havre and Marseille scorer has something to defend himself with. Far from sweat and pinafores, he is today director of a furniture store in the suburbs of Metz. We would have rather seen him in textiles, he who spent the first 34 years of his life sending bags…
Hervé Flores is the exception of this XI. He is the only one to have been trained at OM! He played more than 150 matches there before discovering Le Havre in 1983.
Zarko Olarevic: those who were old enough to go to the stadium in the 1980s cannot forget the HAC attacking trio: Patrick Martet, Philippe Prieur and Zarko Olarevic. The Serbian with the magical left foot stayed two years in Le Havre before leaving for Marseille, where he will finish his career.
On the bench
Oussama Targhalline, Isaak Touré, Modeste M’Bami, Jérôme Leroy, Brice Samba, Fabrice Fernandes, Benjamin Mendy, Sébastien Hamel, Xavier Gravelaine, Miladin Becanovic, Alou Diarra, Ibrahim Ba, Jean-Pierre Cyprien, Frédéric Meyrieu.
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2023-10-08 07:21:15
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