This real Comorian "fan-zone" has been set up on the Félix-Pyat esplanade, in the heart of the very popular 3rd arrondissement of Marseille, a district which is home to many Comorians.
But the Comorian community, which would represent around 80,000 people in Marseille, is also established in the cities to the north of the city and for the historic round of 16 against Cameroon, all the districts had been called to the rescue, from Busserine, la Savine, les Cèdres, Plan d'Aou or la Solidarité.
Through videos on social networks, the vast median of the city has become the meeting place for match nights, until the exploit of the victory against Ghana, historic for a selection which participates in its first CAN, which played its first official match in 2010 and which was not yet recognized by Fifa 20 years ago.
Kamal, he arrived... from Cameroon, where he supported his team without thinking that they could reach the knockout stages.
So he returned to Marseille to see the rest and to party.
"Everywhere, in the Comoros, here, in Yaoundé, in Senegal, wherever there is a Comorian community, we explode with joy," he told AFP.
"The Comoros is a small country, but we must not think that the big ones will always be the big ones. We never thought of going to the CAN, never leaving Ghana, and we did it. It's a big pride."
Small Velodrome
In the midst of firecrackers and fireworks, flags on their shoulders, everyone says this pride, sings the national anthem and chants "Veri Piya", "Tous en Vert".
Félix-Pyat then turns into a small Velodrome.
"To arms! We are the Comorians!" Says one of the DJs in charge of hosting the evening.
One of them, DJ Hatoir, is the brother of Salim Ben Boina, goalkeeper N.2 of the selection, author of a bewildering match against Morocco.
Comorian supporters follow from the Félix-Pyat city in Marseille the match between their team in Cameroon in Yaoundé, January 24, 2022 Christophe SIMON AFP
The benches are reserved for women and children, and beware of anyone who passes in front of the overhead projector and hides the images from Yaoundé, where the national team, deprived of a professional goalkeeper and reduced to 10 after a few minutes, yet stands up to Cameroon.
"Cameroon is bandits!" Yells the DJ after the red card.
In the crowd, among the hundreds of people present, some are not even aware that, in goal, it is defender Chaker Alhadur who does what he can.
The star Alonzo
But Youssouf, a teenager who came with his little brother and sister, doesn't care a bit about the result.
He remembers the previous CAN, when "lots of friends celebrated Algeria's victory".
This time, this Cup is also his.
Comorian supporters follow from the Félix-Pyat city in Marseille the match between their team in Cameroon in Yaoundé, January 24, 2022 Christophe SIMON AFP
Because half of the Comorian players present in Cameroon were born in Marseille or in the surrounding area.
This is also the case of the coach, Amir Abdou.
In office since 2014, he is the great architect of Comorian progress and it is he who convinced the players of the diaspora to join the selection.
Present in Cameroon, the defender Kassim Abdallah, passed by OM, experienced the beginnings.
"We slept in a disused hotel, we were on an internship with nothing at all. We were in something, it was Koh Lanta", he told the podcast "Passe ton Ballon", hosted by young journalists Marseilles.
On Monday, Félix-Pyat's fan zone exploded several times, when Alhadur made an incredible double save, or when M'Changama reduced the score (2-1) with a splendid free kick, without however being able to reverse the final result.
Midfielder Youssouf M'Changama scored the Comoros goal against Cameroon at CAN in Yaoundé on January 24, 2022 Kenzo Tribouillard AFP
But it was for another hero of the Comorian diaspora that all the phones lit up and were brandished at the break.
Rapper Alonzo, a big Marseille star, was surprised to come and sing a song and summed up the moment: "We have already won even if we lose. We are the kings, we are the Comoros!"
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