“Many spectators who come to the Vélodrome are young and do not necessarily know very well what happened. This will be an opportunity to mark this event”, justifies Jacques Cardoze while OM maintained the meeting with Feyenoord Rotterdam in the second leg of the Europa League Conference.
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Thirty years to the day after the Furiani disaster, which left 19 dead and more than 2,300 injured, a tribute will be paid to Marseille before the OM-Feyenoord Rotterdam match in the semi-final second leg of the Europa League Conference. “It was obvious and natural for us to have to mark this moment, it is a duty of memory”explained Thursday, May 5 on franceinfo Jacques Cardoze, director of communication for OM.
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The law of October 14, 2021 guarantees that no professional football match will now be played in France on May 5, the anniversary date of the Furiani tragedy.
“Castellani” law adopted. I have at this moment a moved thought for all the victims and all those who still suffer. Thank you to all those who have made it possible to follow through on this promise. @Collective5mai92 @GroupeLibTerrAN @ecologistesenat @PauluParigi @tomdoss @AssembleeCorse
— Michel Castellani (@Castellani_) October 14, 2021
But Olympique de Marseille did not ask to change the date of the match. “We know that this law applies to French competitions so we were not entitled and able to ask for anything else” what a tribute. “UEFA responded very quickly to our requests which were almost demands.”
The OM-Feyenoord Rotterdam match is not “not like the others, we can’t not have thoughts from the families of the victims. This is the reason why as soon as the date of May 5 was known, we asked UEFA to be able to organize a tribute particular on the occasion of this match”explained Jacques Cardoze.
Marseille players will wear “a black armband, there will be a minute of silence observed before kick-off, images will be shown on the giant screens and a text will be read. It feels like yesterday when it was there 30 years ago. Many spectators who come to the Vélodrome are young and do not necessarily know very well what happened. This will be an opportunity to mark this event and show that we must not forget for the victims. , for all those who have suffered and all of football.”