While Olympique de Marseille has an appointment this Tuesday evening in Santiago Bernabeu to face Real Madrid, the Madrid speaker does not recall good memories at the Olympian club. On September 30, 2009, the sky and white had indeed experienced hell there, losing 3-0 after a match where Didier Deschamps' men had only illusions the space of fifteen minutes.
Arrived during the summer in Marseille, Souleymane Diawara had spent a particularly complicated evening. It will also end prematurely on a tackle too committed to Cristiano Ronaldo. Because if the Senegalese international had indeed touched the ball, as he did not fail to repeat to the referee, he had won everything in his path, including the ankle of the Portuguese. The former Mancunian was not going to get up and was left for two months of absence.
This memory remains painful for Souleymane Diawara, for whom it is “one of the two matches” the hardest of his career. “The truth is that Cristiano put me on misery. A monster. I played barely more than a period, and I came out wrugled, he told 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. »»
Souleymane Diawara in cell
The preparation had not been ideal for the native of Dakar. The fault of a passing in police custody the night before departure for Madrid. “” 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, remembered 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 ”, Rectified Souleymane Diawara. A poorly parked car on the Old Port, an invalidated permit due to several offenses and here is the Marseille player, who also tried to pretend to be a family member, taken to the police station. Finally, a rank, a big supporter of OM, will intercede in its favor after intervention of the club …
