Captain of OM winner of the 1993 Champions League after a 1-0 victory against AC Milan, Didier Deschamps was expected at the 125th anniversary of the Marseille club, on May 2 at the Vélodrome stadium. More than a hundred emblematic players of the Phocaeans will be gathered in the lair of Boulevard Michelet and the Marseille public hopes to find “La Dèche” as well as his friend Marcel Desailly, with whom he started at FC Nantes before winning the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000.
Desailly and Deschamps are not officially announced at the 125th anniversary of OM but Desailly is cited in the press release from FC Nantes for a “Legends match” organized on Tuesday, June 3 at the Beaujoire stadium. “The Rock” will be partying! Jewels of the training center, the inseparable Deschamps and Desailly were launched by the conductor of the “Nantes game”, Jean-Claude Suaudeau. The first city left in 1989 and the second in 1992, each time for Marseille.
This “legendary match” of FC Nantes will give pride of place to many champions of France. “Coco” Suaudeau, 86, will find his foals from the coronations of 1983 and 1995. The illustrious Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes and Maxime Bossis will be there, as revealed by the Canaries' press release, as well as Dominique Casagrande, Eddy Capron, Christian Karembeu, Christophe Pignol, Japiet N’Doram and Patrice Loko, the almost invincibles in 1995.
Desailly, Karembeu and Pirès gathered
Finally, among the 2001 France champions led by Raynald Denoueix, we will find Sylvain Armand, Éric Carrière, Stéphane Ziani, Olivier Monterrubio, Frédéric Da Rocha and Marama Vahirua. The famous Tahitian paddle was decisive during the final sprint to keep OL remotely.
Among the other distinguished guests (while waiting for other names), the legend of the Blues Alain Giresse will compete in the gala meeting and the 98 world champion Robert Pirès will accompany Karembeu and Desailly. Didier Deschamps, he will be in the midst of a gathering with the French team for the Final Four of the League of Nations, with a semi-final against Spain scheduled for Thursday, June 5 in Stuttgart.
