” I was not excpecting that at all. “On March 30, a young 4th grader was attacked at college because he was wearing an Olympique de Marseille jersey. At the end of April, “the postman arrived and dropped off a package. I opened it, and it was a blue box with a big OM logo on it. And inside was a word,” the teenager told France Blue Perigord. The letter was signed by the club’s legendary striker, Jean-Pierre Papin, who recently became a strategic adviser to the club’s president, Pablo Longoria.
“JPP” wished him “to get better as soon as possible” and had slipped a jersey into the package “with my first name written on the back and the signature of all the players”. The schoolboy will also have the joy of going to the Vélodrome on May 27 to attend the match between the first French club to have won a European Cup, in Brest. The young man indicated on the radio to be “very impatient” to be there.