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Basile Boli, famous player of Olympique de Marseille, marked the history of the club by winning the Champions League. Today, he still follows the matches of the Phocaeans. Brut was with him at the Stade Vélodrome for the match against Rennes.
“Oh Basilou!“For Basile Boli, it’s impossible to walk around Marseille without being recognized. “It makes people happy to see me again, thirty years later, to have me sign autographs again. Finally, there are no more autographs. Now it’s the selfies”, he smiles. The former player traveled to Marseille to attend the home game against Rennes. “We feel that we are already in an exceptional atmosphere”, he enthuses.
“I naturalized Marseille. They adopted me. They gave me more than I gave them, actually. They don’t know it.“For the former defender, the benevolence always shown to him by Marseille supporters moves him. “What warms my heart is, thirty years later, to see kids of seven or eight years old tell me my story.”
After his career, Basile Boli mounted a “sports-study campus project throughout France”. He also carries the role of OM ambassador. “It’s to be between the president, the players and the politicians, and it’s to bring all your experience, everything you’ve experienced before.”
Basile Boli wrote about his history with Olympique Marseillais in MEMORIES OF MANavailable today.