FACING THE AUDITORS
Jean-Pierre Bernès was not only the general manager of OM European Champion in 1993. This club, the current player agent has pegged at the body for a long time. That's what he explained to the microphone of Europe 1 during the show "Face aux auditeurs", where he returned to his affective report to the club phocéen, a club he served in the early 1980s when he was at worst.
"I was doing my military service in Aix-en-Provence, and the club in 1980-81 was in liquidation," said one who currently manages the interests of the two national coaches, Didier Deschamps and Corinne Deacon. "To save the club, there was a high-level football safeguarding committee in Marseille that had been created (...) and every night, in the Marseille region, in cafes, restaurants, there were meetings that were made with the public, supporters, to buy cards, at the time 50 francs (about 7.5 euros today), to donate to the OM When I finished my military service in the evening, I I took my car and went to the bars to attend the meetings. (...) I sold cards, I put posters at Stade Vélodrome ...
The fate of Jean-Pierre Bernès, who explains that his passion for football was transmitted to him by his father, switches when he meets Claude Cuny, former president of AS Nancy-Lorrain, arrived in Marseille to save the club. "He had noticed me in meetings because I often called with questions deemed relevant, and he asked me if I was interested in coming to work." I was crazy about Olympique de Marseille, I did all the trips, and when I told my parents that I was going to get into football, my dad said to me, 'With all the studies you've done, you'll go into football, I told him : 'Daddy, it's your fault' and I started at 24 in football. "
"At first, I took care of all the dark tasks"
And at the time, Jean-Pierre Bernès did not have a mirific contract ... "It was stated that the club was in liquidation and that, overnight, I could be fired.And I said to myself: 'Both Worse, I sign it anyway, I was there. "At first I took care of all the dark tasks My wife washed the shirts at home, spread them on the balcony, I went to get the players to the service because my father was a soldier, so he helped us to place players in the region, and after that I was director of the training center of the private technical school of Olympique de Marseille. who was preparing for CAP football trades, and you could have the apprenticeship tax.And to have a director, you needed an academic and as I graduated (from the Institute of Political Studies of Aix-En Provence, editor's note), I was a director and I had many professional players at school, Éric Di Meco ( member of the famous team 'minots' in the second division, ed ) was one of my students. Afterwards, I had him as a player. "Today a consultant on RMC, the former fiery side was the team of OM champion of Europe in 1993 when Jean-Pierre Bernès was the general manager.