The young nugget from Olympique de Marseille is at the heart of a controversy which has ignited social networks since Saturday evening. Robinio Vaz, the revelation of the start of the Marseille season, has just experienced his first real professional slump during the trip to Lens (2-1). A poor performance that could have gone unnoticed, but a killer sentence changed everything. Marseille supporters stepped up to defend their favorite in the face of what they consider to be an unfair and contemptuous attack.
“That’s the world of adults”: the sentence that shocked Marseille
The bad buzz comes from the Actu Foot account, followed by no less than 8 million subscribers on Twitter. After Vaz's difficult tenure at Bollaert, the media published its unflattering statistics accompanied by a scathing comment:
“That’s also the world of adults.” One little sentence too many which triggered a massive outcry in the Olympian community. The salty responses multiplied under the tweet, creating a real bad buzz around this account which is nevertheless accustomed to controversies.
Vaz's figures for the evening were indeed worrying: 15 balls touched, 9 ball losses, 0 duels won out of 5, and only 50% successful passes. Replaced in the 52nd minute by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, the young 18-year-old striker experienced his baptism of fire in the world of starters. But for Marseille supporters, this performance in no way justifies the tone used by Actu Foot.
Robinio Vaz: the controversy that ignites the Marseille community
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The reaction is all the more virulent as Robinio Vaz embodies all the hopes of the Vélodrome. Author of 2 goals and 2 assists in just 120 minutes of play this seasonhis, his rating went from 150,000€ to 4 million euros in a few months. Roberto De Zerbi himself recently confessed to having “a weakness” for him. Mason Greenwood described him as a player “who becomes better match after match”.
For the Marseille family, touching Vaz is touching their pride.
