Didier Deschamps, the current national coach, experienced a knife robbery during his visit to Marseille.
Today, no one dares to attack Didier Deschamps. The national coach is appreciated by many people and his name commands respect. But this was not the case thirty years ago. When he was still an OM player, he was notably treated to bad jokes from his former teammate Pascal Olmeta.
“And then Deschamps got scared”
Speaking in a long interview with So Foot, the Corsican recounted the time he robbed DD in a hotel. “After climbing up to his window, I came out and came back to knock on his door. He got scared, and when he opened it, I was there with a big knife. He said I was a jobber, but hey, that’s why we love each other so much.”
Deschamps experienced the scare of his life when he was a player at OM.
The current coach of the Blues did not hold it against Olmeta. On the other hand, another renowned international completely shunned him for several days, in the person of David Ginola. “He didn’t say hello to me for ten days,” he confided about the man he met at Matra Racing. As I knew he didn’t wear underwear under his tracksuit, I put tons of ointment like Tiger Balm on it. So, warming up, sweating, it started to heat up. He was on fire! “.
Olmeta could be friendly with his partners, but a little less with the supporters who disrespected him. He also recounted the time he attacked one because the latter had insulted his mother. “At OM, there was a guy behind the goal who didn’t stop. “Hey Olmeta motherfucker, you son of a bitch, wa, wa, wa…”. I thought that after ten matches he would stop, but no. So I told two boxing friends where he belonged to bring him back to me in the parking lot after the match. Well I hit him – I had a car key ring with a boar’s head in the palm of my hand, I still have the scar. When he fell, I hit him on the head with cowboy boots. I’m not a son of a bitch. My mother, she knew where she came from.” Sacred Olmeta.
