If OM won their first success against Paris in almost ten years last year at the Parc des Princes in a particular context (1-0 victory), the Marseille club are still waiting for a victory at the Vélodrome since Sunday, November 27, 2011. (success 3-0). And inevitably, just a few weeks after the death of Bernard Tapie, the former Olympian president at the origin of the “Classic” as we hear it nowadays, a success of the troops of Jorge Sampaoli this Sunday October 24 would take a particular symbolism. Especially since, if the club of the capital was just starting its galactic project in 2011, it has today reached a form of climax of the latter with the signatures of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappé.
To get an idea, at the time the recruits were called, among others, Salvatore Sirigu (for 3.9 M € from Palermo), Diego lugano (snatched from Fenerbahce SK for € 3 million), Mohamed Sissoko (8 M €, Juventus Turin), Blaise Matuidi (8 M €, Saint-Etienne), Jeremy Ménez (8 M €, AS Rome), Kevin Gameiro (11 M €, FC Lorient) and of course Javier Pastore (€ 42 million, Palermo). Seven newcomers all titular for the match of November 2011. That is to say almost 65% of the eleven… On the left wing, baby has only been here for a little over a season, when Christophe Jallet landed in 2009. The last two are the “club identity guarantee”. Sylvain Armand squat the Camp des Loges since 2004, while Mamadou Sakho then represents the supreme titi.
4 retirees, 2 back in L1
In this eleven, three quarters of the defense hung up their spikes. Jallet is a consultant for the issue of ” Canal Football Club »Since February and after an abortive experience with the ephemeral Telefoot, Lugano became in February 2019 president of the Footballers Association of Uruguay and Armand is sports coordinator in Lille. Sirigu signed him free this year at Genoa (18e of Serie A) after a stint at Torino (from his departure from Paris in 2017 to June 2021), while Sakho plays again in Ligue 1 with the MHSC, just like Gameiro in Strasbourg. Regarding the midfielders, Blaise Matuidi is in great difficulty at Inter Miami, while “Momo” Sissoko is now an agent.
At 40, Nenê is playing at Vasco da Gama (in the Brazilian second division), when Javier Pastore bounced back to Elche CF during the last transfer window, signing a one-year contract there, but where he played little (58 minutes since the start of the exercise). Finally, Jérémy Ménez, scorer against Olympique Lyonnais to offer PSG their first French league title since the arrival of Qatar at the head of the club (2013), has found Italy with the second division club of the Reggina 1914. All this beautiful little world was then managed by Antoine Kombouaré, current coach of FC Nantes. Had come into play Mevlut Erdinc, Ceará and Mathieu Bodmer.
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