Her name is Ashley Van Buren, lives in New York, is an editorial consultant for films, television, books and also theater. And she knows absolutely nothing about football …
And yet, on every match day of Olympique de Marseille, his Twitter account, soberly named @avb, is the receptacle of passion, criticism and alas much worse coming from Phocian fans who believe they are addressing their Portuguese coach , André Villas-Boas called “AVB”.
She is used to the confusion since the passage of Villas-Boas by Chelsea then at Tottenham in 2012, where it amplified, as she told it to Konbini.
From the start, she took part in having fun and even became a “follower” of the clubs of her namesake on social networks.
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“It doesn’t bother me any more than that because ultimately it always makes people laugh when I answer them or when they realize that they’ve mentioned the wrong person. Usually I translate them directly via Twitter and that’s all the more funny since it is rarely well translated, ”she explained to Konbini.
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A little “glory” and a sacred sense of the always benevolent distribution that even recently earned him a gift from the Marseille club, which sent him a flocked outfit… AVB of course.
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