Foot – OM
Posted on June 25, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. by Bernard Colas
Now in Mexico, Florian Thauvin decided to leave Olympique de Marseille last summer at the end of his contract. A year after his departure, the French international opened up for RMC about his new life and let slip some remarks not intended to be broadcast which are now controversial, forcing the attacker to justify himself on the social networks.
Despite the insistence of his management, Florian Thauvin decided to leave theABOUT last summer. While the striker had a few leads in Europe, with interest mooted from theAC Milan or even of FC Sevillehe decided to join Andre-Pierre Gignac in Mexico, on the side of tigers of Monterrey. « There are several things to consider. The first is that I was coming to the end of my contract with OM and that I had a choice to make, both in sport and in my private life. What you need to know is that signing for OM was a childhood dream. So I managed to realize my dream and also had the chance to become world champion at the time when I was at OM. The second thing is that I spent seven years at OM. It’s an extraordinary club, which is magnificent, but it’s a tough club. There is a lot of pressure on a daily basis, I went through difficult times, especially psychologically where certain things were difficult to swallow. », was justified Florian Thauvin in an interview broadcast by RMC this Friday. But the French international went further off the air, comments not supposed to be shared with the public which are controversial today.
While they all thought they were off the air, @FlorianThauvin talks about his son’s future if he would have extended in Marseille. Listen carefully until the end, you will hear the real @FlorianThauvin. pic.twitter.com/sjCvRQItCX
— Emboucaneur_13 (@Emboucaneur_13) June 24, 2022
“I said to myself that my son is only two years old, it’s not possible that he goes to school in Marseille like that”
« I couldn’t talk about it during the interview but, just for my son… Can you imagine that he is two years old, he speaks French with us, Spanish with the nanny and he is at school at the AmericanSchool. It’s a crazy thing. Just for him it’s a crazy thing “, told Florian Thauvin off, before answering a question from Jean Louis Towerjournalist at RMCexplaining that the 29-year-old striker couldn’t imagine raising his son in Marseille, ” among the dingoes » : « I’m honest… I can’t say that on air, but it’s true that when I got the extension offer from OM… Because they made a crazy effort, a contract crazy, Longoria and Sampaoli, they did everything… But I told myself that my son is only two years old, it’s not possible that he goes to school in Marseille like that… And even me , me and my wife, we couldn’t take it anymore. “An exit which quickly aroused the anger of supporters of theABOUT on social networks, forcing the player to tigers to speak up to justify themselves.
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— Florian Thauvin (@FlorianThauvin) June 25, 2022
“I made a mistake because I did not react”
« A video message to react to what happened today (Friday) on RMC including the broadcast of a private conversation. I’m really disappointed, disgusted, I see it as a betrayal because you don’t reveal a private conversation publicly. But I’m not going to give them more importance and talk about that any longer. What is important for me is to come back to the subject and to the comments made by the journalist that I do not agree with at all, which are inadmissible. I made a mistake because I did not react. I should have reacted immediately and defended ourselves. I shouldn’t have let this pass, and for that I apologize to all the Marseillais. As for the rest and to clarify the situation, I was simply explaining that I had done the rounds in Marseille, that I needed a change in my life, that it was professional or my private life, and that I was proud and happy to be able to offer my son the opportunity to discover a new country, a new culture and the fact that he could learn several languages. So that’s just what I said. As for the rest, my attachment to Marseille, I have demonstrated, proven in the past. Everyone knows my attachment so there’s no need to go back on that. I will always be proud, I will never forget where I come from, I will never forget OM, I will always be proud of them and I will always wear the club’s colors loud and clear. Go OM and long live Marseille “, has explained Florian Thauvin in a video posted on Twitter. Jean Louis Tower also wanted to apologize to the player and the Marseille supporters, confirming that the extract published should never have seen the light of day: “ On the remarks at the end of Thauvin’s interview. It was of course not intended for broadcast. Now that this is the case, I regret the word “dingos” to qualify the Marseillais. A familiarity to designate the particular context that we have to manage when we play at OM. Our apologies also of course for the player. »
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