Football is a ruthless world and it is a young French hopeful who has just learned it the hard way. Having signed a non-solicitation contract at the age of 12, the doors of OM closed a few weeks before he joined the Marseille club.
” Young player of the 2008 generation Maël Quince joined a French professional club. Indeed Maël central defender who currently evolves within the talented U13 group of AS Orly Football has chosen Olympique de Marseille whose training center he will integrate. » In 2020, the website PanameFoot announced the good news for a very young defender detected by OM and who frequents Clairefontaine. But time passed, and finally, when the young 14-year-old footballer was to join this season, the Marseille club finally told his family that they no longer wanted him. A real shock for him, when his father, a civil servant, had obtained a transfer to Marseille and had even taken a studio while waiting for the rest of the family to follow. Last April, OM’s new recruitment director therefore explained to Maël Quince’s family that the latter had been judged ” not physically ready to be upgraded to U17 “.
OM changed their minds at the last moment
CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 🎊 TO MAEL QUINCE (DEFENDER 2008) FROM AS ORLY (94) FOR HIS SIGNATURE AT THE OLYMPIQUE DE MARSEILLE.
🤩🤩🤩🤩😍😍😍🔥🔥✅✅✅. OM DEMONSTRATES ITS NEW POLICY INSPIRED BY PABLO LONGORIA TO SET UP IN THE PARIS REGION TO FIND TALENT. pic.twitter.com/9qfXAPSjGK— FUTURCRACK_ (@Futurcrack_1) November 22, 2020
On the side of the parents of the young defender, we asked Olympique de Marseille why they waited so long to finally say no. ” Ludovic Paradinas (Editor’s note: OM’s new scouting manager) replied that he would have had trouble telling us before, having arrived at his post in March “, confided, in Today in France, the mother of the young footballer, who finally took over a license with the Montrouge club and will continue his studies in a high school in the Paris region. Maël also did some trials in professional clubs hoping to be able to prove one day that Olympique de Marseille was wrong about him. Of course, OM is neither the first nor the last club to do so. On the other hand, this kind of scenario is still regrettable given the age of the footballers concerned.
