Olympique de Marseille will have had a splendor season, although agitated. The best illustration is obviously the qualification of the sky and white for the Champions League, the men of Roberto de Zerbi still pointing in second place in Ligue 1 before receiving Rennes this weekend on the occasion of the last day of the championship.
But the season will also have been good for the women, second in the D2 and therefore in the process of going back to D1 Arkema. Likewise, the national U19 and U17 were both sacred. There is ultimately only one shadow on the board: the fifth place of the reserve team in its pool of national 3.
And to believe RMC Sport, Jean-Pierre Papin, the coach of the Pro 2 team, will not have the opportunity to finally raise the reserve in National 2. At the end of the contract, the former Marseille striker will not be kept this summer, the Marseille leaders already having a very precise idea on the identity of his successor.
Jean-Pierre Pain preserved in a symbolic role?
However, JPP could remain at OM in a role still to be defined and which would have only a very symbolic significance. Discussions in this sense recently took place between the native of Boulogne-sur-Mer and Pablo Longoria, the Olympian president continuing to want the Marseille club to maintain a link with his former glories. And this despite the liabilities of the old idol of the velodrome…
“Today, if you want to set up a project with more requirement and despite all the respect I have for him, you cannot do it with Jean-Pierre Papin who, sometimes, sits on his cooler to play his phone during training”recently said Roman journalist Romain Molina about the one who was also in conflict with Ali Zarrak, the PRO 2 manager of the Marseille club, accused by the former striker to get too involved in sports choices, team compositions to playing time issued to players.
“At one point, there are rules. If you are told that you cannot go naked in the jacuzzi with the pros, that you cannot come with the jersey of another team because we prohibit young people (it was the Montpellier jersey in this case) …, had added the journalist.For the trip to Lens, there is an appointment at 8:45 am, arrived at 9:15 am, they almost missed the train … He said once there was a medical appointment for his family when he was drinking champagne in lodges for an event billed by his image box. »»
