Today at Bayer Leverkusen, Eliesse Ben Seghir looked back on a significant episode from his beginnings, when he was very close to joining Olympique de Marseille. A choice ultimately aborted, experienced with great emotion by the Moroccan attacker. “I cried when I was told I wasn’t going to OM”he confided to the microphone ofAfrikickacknowledging that this decision was one of the most difficult of his young career.
If he finally opted for AS Monaco, it was above all for family reasons. “I also made the choice for my family, because my family wanted to choose safety above all else and thought that Marseille was not the best place for me to develop”he explains, before adding: “I was still young, I listened to my family. But I cried. » A painful choice at the time, but one that took him to the highest level.
