Olympique de Marseille has found a smile. A week after having corrected Montpellier at the Vélodrome stadium, OM indeed gave it against Brest on Sunday, at the end of the 31e
daytime. Enough to allow the Phocaeans to consolidate their second place in the classification with now two points ahead of the LOSC, with which it will move next weekend.
However, the Marseille players will not escape a new long green this week. Roberto de Zerbi confirmed at the end of the meeting that OM would return to Rome on Tuesday, in order to prepare the shock against the Dogues. A way to tighten the troops while strong dissensions were felt throughout the winter, especially around Mason Greenwood.
But to believe Christian Carlini, who officiated at the head of OM in the late 1970s, these dissensions were little compared to the atmosphere that reigned in the Olympian locker room before relegation to the second division. “” There was a sacred team with four French internationals who came out of the 1978 World Cup (six, treasure which was still there in 1982, Berdoll, Bracci) more Temime, Tunisian international and Linderoth, Swedish international, both also present at the Argentinian World Cup. But you know, it's like nowadays, when players don't want to play, it's complicated ”, he said in an interview to Corsica-Matin.
A bad atmosphere at OM?
“The atmosphere, it is said, is not at best today in the OM locker room. It was the same in my time. And when the locker room is not healthy, it is the door open to everything. There were tensions between old and newhe continued.
I managed running and boxing and the atmosphere was not great. But the atmosphere in football is still the worst, all sports combined today. »»
Ephemeral OM coach in 1980, Jean Robin had kept a painful memory of this return to the Olympian bench.
“The team was plagued. There was nothing to do, had entrusted the one who had led the sky and white twice in the 1950s and then in the 1963-1964 season. They were players of character, but they did not think of the collective. When you have fights in the locker room, it's a bad sign. He couldn't play together if he stood on it. »»
