According to information from Europe 1, the former Olympique de Marseille legend Basile Boli, who is also the club's ambassador, will begin mediation with OM supporters' associations to pacify relations with management, after the serious incidents on Saturday at the Commanderie.
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Almost 28 years ago, Basile Boli offered OM the Champions League, the only one in French football.
Become ambassador of the club in 2015, the one who is a living legend in Marseille would have accepted, according to corroborating sources at Europe 1, a mediation with the main associations of supporters of the club, pointed out after the coup at the training center of OM on Saturday afternoon.
Scenes of urban guerrilla warfare which resulted in 25 arrests, 7 minor injuries in the ranks of the police, and caused "hundreds of thousands of euros" of damage inside the enclosure.
The new police chief of Marseille, Frédérique Camilleri, has also confided that she did not rule out in the last instance the dissolution of supporters' associations if the facts were serious enough.
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A difficult task for Boli
Before reaching this end, and given the social importance of these associations in Marseille, which bring together more than 20,000 members, the club will therefore try to renew the dialogue via one of its most emblematic stars.
An initiative hailed at the microphone of Europe 1 by Pascal Olmeta, former goalkeeper and popular figure of OM, who regrets that the former players of the club "are not more considered" in this difficult period.
Basile Boli's task is no less difficult, as the gap seems deep between the current leadership represented by Jacques-Henri Eyraud and the supporters of OM.
The deputy president took a step towards them this Sunday morning by recognizing in the
Téléfoot program
on TF1 "clumsiness" in his communication in recent months, considered contemptuous of the Marseillais by a good part of them.