Staying on a big season in Lens, Brice Samba could have had a completely different fate. In Marseille.
Named best goalkeeper of the season during the UNFP Trophies organized last May, Brice Samba will have been one of the great architects of the Lensois crazy season. Now an international tricolor, the person concerned could have had a completely different career if OM had trusted him earlier. Poached in 2013 from the side of Le Havre to become the understudy of Steve Mandanda, then his successor, the native of Linzolo, in Congo, was ultimately not so lucky.
” I was predicted the succession of Mandandanarrates Brice Samba in an interview granted this Friday to Onze Mondial. For many, it was my destiny. But I was not ready. And then there were circumstances… Steve was injured against Guingamp just before going to the Coupe du mwave 2014, when he was to leave the club. So he can’t leave, Bielsa arrives on the bench, I do all the preparation as a starter. Steve was in rehabilitation, therefore absent from the sessions, and he returns two days before the start of the championship, against Bastia. Me, I was convinced that I was going to start the season, I had done all the preparation. Besides, everything had gone well, Bielsa liked me, he told me he had confidence in me. »
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Alas, in four years at OM, including one spent on loan at Nancy, Brice Samba will only have played five official matches in the sky and white jersey. ” Finally, I did not play. And it was very difficult for me, I wanted to play this game. Especially since I had been at the club for a year and a half, I had understood things well. I felt ready. This event hurt me. Subsequently, I was loaned to Nancy, this adventure went very badly. I ended up understanding that Marseille was not the place where I should hatch. Free party in Caen in 2017, it is in Nottingham Forest that he will finally burst the screen in 2019, before being repatriated by the Sang et Or last summer. A damn good pickaxe!
