The “Celebrations of the 125th anniversary of OM”, Friday evening at the Vélodrome stadium, offered a magnificent casting. The winners of the 1993 Champions League were represented by Pascal Olmeta, Jocelyn Anglooma, Marcel Desailly, Bernard Casoni or Eric Di Meco (to the comments of the match). Among the Champions of France 2010 under the orders of Didier Deschamps, we found Vitorino Hilton, Taye Taiwo, Benoît Cheyrou, Charles Kaboré, Stéphane Mbia, Brandao and Mamadou Niang.
A handful of players experienced the Marseille Olympique Didier Drogba course to the 2004 UEFA Cup final (2-0 defeat against Valence). The Ivorian idol found Jérémy Gavanon, Fabien Laurenti, Johnny Ecker, Sébastien Pérez and Laurent Battles, who responded for this gala evening at the Vélodrome.
Before kick -off, Drogba was obviously happy to find Ecker, but the former central defender did not participate in the meeting. In front of the camera of BFM Marseille, the former Lille explained to be ” disabled “ Due to a serious knee problem which recently forced him to have a total prosthesis. An operation which therefore allows it to remarcher properly.
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Johnny Ecker, a central defender revealed to LOSC (Champion of Ligue 2 in 2000, he scored a decisive goal in qualifying for the C1 against Parma), evolved at OM from 2002 to 2005. Alain Perrin made it one of his soldiers during the 2002-2003 season, for a 3rd place in the championship. The following fall, the left -hander of 1.87 my summer tenured during the two games against the Real Madrid of the Galactics, but then lost his place in the second part of the season, José Anigo forming a central hinge with three with Habib Beye, Brahim Hemdani and Abdoulaye Meïté.
Due to a serious injury, Ecker played only three games during the 2004-2005 exercise, under Anigo then Philippe Troussier, before a bar of honor at the front Guingamp and the Nîmes Olympique and a retirement in 2007. He then became young people in Beaucaire (Gard), his training club, then created his own club, Hope FC Beaucairois.
