This is what the entourage of the current Lens goalkeeper had predicted to him when he wore the Olympique de Marseille jersey.
At 29, Brice Samba is a rather fulfilled player. This is what we can think of the goalkeeper of RC Lens, solid runner-up to PSG last season in Ligue 1. The one who recently extended with the Sang et Or also experienced the joy of international status.
Called up last March by coach Didier Deschamps on the occasion of the start of qualifying for Euro 2024, the native of Linzolo (DR of Congo) was placed in second place among tricolor goalkeepers, behind Mike Maignan.
Number two, Brice Samba was also number two when he was at OM, between January 2013 and July 2017. Which does not leave him with very good memories, to read in an interview with Eleven-World.
“Bielsa liked me, he told me he trusted me”
” I had been told Mandanda’s succession. For many, it was my destiny. But I wasn’t readyhe confides in the magazine. And then there were circumstances. Steve (Mandanda) was injured against Guingamp just before going to the 2014 World Cup, when he was due to leave the club. »
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— French Football Weekly (@foot365) August 4, 2023
Brice Samba, trained like Steve Mandanda in Le Havre, then says that the latter’s departure is no longer relevant. Samba is doing all the preparation in the shoes of the incumbent and thinks it will be the same when the 2014-2015 season resumes. Coach Marcelo Bielsa decided otherwise.
” Bielsa liked me, he told me he trusted me. In the end, I did not playregrets Brice Samba. And it was very difficult for me, I wanted to play this game. Especially since I had been at the club for a year and a half, I understood things well. »
