“It was chaos”: between France and South Africa, the battle of Marseille left its mark

2023-10-11 07:28:36

Thirteen years since the French team last beat South Africa. Between November 13, 2009 in Toulouse (20-13) and November 12, 2022 in Marseille (30-26), the Blues lost seven times in a row against the Springboks. A series broken on the pitch of the Stade-Vélodrome at the end of a memorable clash, sometimes violent, between two starving teams. Before the reunion, this Sunday, October 15, at the Stade de France, in the quarter-finals of the World Cup, “the battle of Marseille” remains on everyone’s minds.