"I have tears in my eyes every time": Dominique Tapie plunges back into the coronation of OM in the Champions League

Jean-Baptiste Sarrazin 20:52 pm, April 03, 2023

There are memories that remain engraved for life. And at Dominique Tapie, widow of the former president of Olympique de MarseilleBernard Tapie since October 3, 2021, it is an evening in May 1993 that floods his memory. An evening when OM became the first French football club to win the Champions League. Exceptional guest of the show Europe 1 Sport (every evening from 20 hours to 23 hours), Dominique Tapie did not hide his emotion during an extract recalling this victory against AC Milan.

"I have tears in my eyes every time" that this subject is mentioned, confessed the former companion of the business leader. That evening, Dominique Tapie remembers it very well: "I was just behind him (Dominique Tapie", in the spans of the Velodrome. "When there was the final whistle, he turned to me, it was the most complete euphoria," she told Lionel Rosso.

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President and... coach

Even today, this victory of Olympique de Marseille remains one of the most beautiful feats of French sport. "Forever the first", the Marseille motto is fully justified for the widow of the former president of OM. And this victory, the Phocaeans owe it essentially to its former president Bernard Tapie as told by Dominique Tapie through an anecdote little known to the general public: "He (Bernard Tapie) had a walkie talkie. Basil Boli wanted to go out but Bernard refused. He said to Raymond Goethals: 'There is no question of it, you leave it'" on the lawn. An instruction given from the stands that paid off since the Marseille defender scored the only goal of the final allowing OM to win the Champions League.

Bernard Tapie's time in Marseille has also forever marked the supporters of Olympique de Marseille. "There was a survey that was carried out and 73% of Marseillais are for there to be a name or a monument" at the Velodrome explained Dominique Tapie. "My son Laurent created a background he found a sculptor for a pretty statue" which should be exhibited around the stadium in the coming months. The widow of the former football executive is also campaigning for a stand to bear the name of her former husband, who died of cancer. A way to immortalize the memory of Bernard Tapie in the Phocaean city.