Four titles of champion of France, a French cup, a golden ball: Jean-Pierre Papin has won everything under the colors of OM. He only missed the Champions League. Leaving at AC Milan in 1992, while at the top of his art, the native of Boulogne-sur-Mer was not in the right team on the evening of May 26, 1993, at the Munich Olympic stadium.
A huge disappointment for the former attacker, who therefore saw his former partners raise the only C1 in the history of French football (1-0). Among them, Eric Di Meco had the Marseillais. And if he did not celebrate this title with “JPP”, the former left side keeps good memories of him, even if he considers him as the player “The most unbearable” that he rubbed shoulders with.
Jean-Pierre Pain and Eric Di Meco at OM, in 1991.
“Outside the field, he was a child, he was hellish like a kid, he made them allhe recalls in an interview with the regional daily
Nice-Matin. Like putting buckets of water above the doors, passing wet bags under the table … You had to be careful all the time. In addition, it was the son of the boss. »» Understand Bernard Tapie.
Jean-Pierre Papin was “infernal” at OM
A president who marked the spirits in the Marseille city, it is not the former tricolor international defender who will say the opposite. “I was very lucky to rub shoulders with this man on a daily basis for six yearshe said. At the table, he did not eat with the coaches, but with the players. And he went from one to the other, he saved on your plate, it was something … “
“In fact, he ate his brain, he was a guru, he was going into your head and he pulled 120% of everyoneadd the one who is a consultant on RMC. A real dingo of sports, and I think he has lived with us his best life, and we too. The period was extremely strong with the supreme title. He also told us a lot, especially in his political life. »»
