“I still don’t realize it.” For some, it’s just football. For him, it’s a bit more than that. Anthony Vivien, founder and president of the association Les Titis du PSG, took it very badly when Adrien Rabiot, a kid who trained in his favorite club, decided to join Olympique de Marseille, the big rival.
“It’s a betrayal, he confided on Thursday to the microphone of France Bleu Paris, with tears in his eyes. I understand that being a footballer is a job, it’s a profession, that you have to put food in your bowl. There was the Fiorèse episode, Déhu, I was in the stadium, and I had no qualms about expressing my discontent.”
Rabiot to OM, “it’s science fiction”
But for Anthony Vivien, the blow is even more violent, because it comes from a player trained at the club. “Here we are talking about a ‘titi’, that I always defended in the 2010s, when he took a beating from the supporters, he recalls.
He was French champion in the early 2010s, he beat OM. I see him again, I was there that day. And to think that almost fifteen years later he will wear that jersey… Seeing him sing, wearing the scarf, I still can’t believe it.
Now, Anthony Vivien no longer knows if he can still consider Rabiot as a “titi”, as a child of PSG. “I never thought I would say those words. It’s science fiction. I still don’t believe it,
he confides. I don’t wish him any harm, I just hope that he gets a beating the day he comes to the Parc des Princes.” It will be next March.
