So it took 16 years to see theOlympique de Marseille Raise the road to the most successful club in history. Tuesday evening, the Marseille club plunged back into the high bath of the Champions League in Bernabeu, against Real Madrid.
But the rich history of OM in the European Cup is full of gala matches. On September 30, 2009, OM had already faced Real, then carried by stars like Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema or Kaka. It was at the Vélodrome, and the Marseillais had undergone the law of the White House by losing 3-0.
Souleymane Diawara, Figure of OM.
Present in the ranks of OM that evening, Souleymane Diawara, expelled for a tackle on CR7, has not forgotten the ordeal that the Portuguese made him live. “The truth is that Cristiano put me on misery. A monster. I played barely more than a period, and I came out wrugled, he explained to
The team. This real… Kaka, Cristiano, Lassana Diarra, Pepe, Sergio Ramos, Benzema, etc., for me, it's stronger than the current team. I was surprised by the atmosphere of the Bernabeu, I expected to live hell, in fact, we mainly heard the Marseille supporters. But hell, we experienced it on the ground. »»
Real Madrid, a bad memory for Diawara
But Real Madrid is also a bad memory for the off-terrain context in the mind of Diawara. The current Ligue 1 + consultant had a preparation truncated by a passing in police custody the night before departure in Spain. “” We were all in general aviation to wait “Souley”. At first, no one was really worried because he was sometimes late but the minutes passed, we were asking questions. A club person came to explain to us that he had spent the night in police custody, Remember Mathieu Valbuena. And suddenly he arrived … He made a low profile, but hey, “Souley” is natural painting, he quickly told us. »»
“” It was not a night, rather four or five hours in a cell! A permit lack, it was not very serious ”, recalled Souleymane Diawara. The facts: a poorly parked car on the Old Port and an invalidated permit due to several offenses. Everything ended rather well, except in the field, where OM could not exist.
