The victory of the Paris SG in the Champions League was not easy to live in Marseille. Until May 31, 2025 and the brilliant victory of the Red and Blue against Inter Milan (5-0) on the lawn of the Allianz Arena, the Marseille supporters never failed to recall that OM was the only French team to have won the C1.
This is no longer the case and PSG has even become with this victory in the Champions League the most titled French club on the European scene. Consequence of his coronation in the cut of the Cup winners in 1996. “To have the first to have won two European cuts, the Marseillais were turned off”had also exclaimed Jérôme Rothen during the celebrations of the victory of the capital club in the Parc des Princes, 1er June. A bickering badly experienced by some Marseillais, first of all of which Eric Di Méco.
The former OM side entrusted it this Monday at the Rothen microphone on Monday ignites, ensuring that it has “badly experienced” this chamber of a colleague and a consultant friend. So much so that the Vauclusian would have taken it ” personally “, Disappointed to see him celebrate the coronation of PSG by making fun of the Marseille camp. A good attack in which Jérôme Rothen tried to answer.
Jérôme Rothen defends himself
“The club thought of the elders, some elders but not all the elders because it could not bring everyone. There I did not have the label of animator of Rothen ignite or RMC, I was just Jérôme Rothen, the former player of Paris Saint-Germain who played six years at PSG and who played more than 200 games at PSG “he first explained, adding:
“Eric you know it, and the Marseillais know it, perhaps among those who could have been shocked from my intervention at the park is that we all fueled this rivalry with Marseille. Indeed, there, I just have the cap of former PSG player and the pride of having the sensation and that the club put forward its elders and communicated saying that if he had the Champions League it was also thanks to all the elders. »»
“The chambering has always been part of the game and you know Eric very well. In any case, the day before the match, I was on my show and we received lots of Marseille supporters saying that he had bought the Inter and this and that “, he continued, specifying again: “The chambering is also part of the game and that is not to say that I will be cut off from Marseille supporters in my show. No, my program is general public and brings together all the passions of football. Inside the passion for French football and football, there is a rivalry between Marseille and Paris. And it is true that that day on the ground, it was chambering. »»
