OM is obviously not a club like any other in France. The first two preparation matches of the formation of Robert de Zerbi made an audience card on Youtube, while Leonardo Balerdi and his teammates faced only a pitiful Dutch D3, the Excelsior Maassluis, who almost desired last May, for an easy victory (5-0), and a Belgian team that has just access the D2 Overseas. Charleroi, for a disappointing draw (1-1).
The Italian technician will be keen to see his holders refine their automatisms, around Adrien Rabiot, Mason Greenwood or Amine Gouiri (pending offensive recruits including Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang), in the next two friendly matches in Andorra and Tarragona, against Girona and Valence, next Saturday and Tuesday. The two meetings are unfortunately not broadcast by the YouTube channel of the Marseille club.
For Marseille supporters, you will have to go to the OM Twitch channel, accessible against 5 euros per month, and to the club site for subscribers, or watch the L'Equipe channel but for two delayed matches. A funny choice in 2025, which brings toe the sky and white supporters against the national media into the national media. What to push some to call the boycott of the L'Equipe chain.
The chain the team maintains pétanque
The Team has indeed bought the TV rights of the two matches but without broadcasting them live … Saturday, Girona-OM is scheduled at 8 p.m. and will be found at 8:55 p.m. on the TNT channel, after the end of the Australian and Irish and Irish Rugby Lions test-match. Next Tuesday, Valence-OM will be 40 minutes late because there will be pétanque on the L'Equipe channel at the time of kick-off (8:30 p.m.). It will more precisely be the semi-finals of the French championships. The Marseille people love their emblematic ball sport, but from there to ruin an OM match, even in preseason?
The vice-champions of France, which will therefore compete in the Champions League from September, will continue their preparation with two shocks at the Vélodrome stadium, against Seville and Aston Villa, Saturdays July 2 and 9. In recent years, Canal+ has broadcast the last lap of the Marseillais in front of their already boiling audience. And the encrypted chain will never have the idea of broadcasting the delayed Olympians …
