Fabien Barthez, homage and emotion

This Monday, May 26, Olympique de Marseille celebrated the thirty-two years of its victory in the 1993 Champions League final. Winners of AC Milan on the only Basile Boli goal, the Phocaeans entered history to become forever the first to bring the “big ears” to France. On the occasion of this anniversary, several football players were invited to remember this evening. Jérôme Alonzo has chosen to talk about and pay tribute to Fabien Barthez.

The chain consultant The team said first delivered his feeling about how the goalkeeper was highlighted (or not) at the time. “I had experienced it through a player of which we speak very little; It's Barthez. Few people remember that two years before, he is the third goalkeeper in Toulouse. The story is incredible. »» And it was at the time that Jérôme Alonzo met the future world champion 98.

“I met Fabien, we were in the Division of Honor (DH) both of him in Toulouse and I in Nice. Two years later, he is European champion. It's a crazy thing. Fabien's ascent to arrive until 93 in Munich, she is incredible. And people talk about it little. I was a guardian of this generation and I had completely experienced the thing with him. I had gone from DH to D3 and he had gone from DH to European champion. »»

Fabien Barthez, an incredible adventure with OM

For the one who will in turn wear the OM jersey had to spin in Saint-Etienne and then in Paris Saint-Germain before ending his career in Nantes (like Fabien Barthez), the “Divine Balle” is therefore not highlighted when it comes to evoking the European epic of Marseillais. “Of all the players we talk about in this adventure, I find that we are not talking about Fabien enough because his adventure is incredible. »»

Starting from OM two years after success in C1, Fabien Barthez returned to wear the sky and white jersey eight years later. First loaned by Manchester United, he definitely signed and remained two more years. A way to complete the loop.