2023-05-25 23:48:57
One of the esplanades leading to the Stade Vélodrome will now bear the name of Bernard Tapie announced this Thursday the mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan in a daily interview Provence. “The large esplanade leading to the Vélodrome stadium, on the Jean-Bouin side (boulevard Michelet, Ed.) will bear the name of Bernard Tapie. We mark in marble his name, his passage, his contribution to the history of this club, ”explained the various left mayor of the city.
The municipality indicated that the inauguration of this Bernard Tapie esplanade would take place “later”. The announcement comes on the eve of the 30th anniversary of OM’s victory in the Champions League on May 26, 1993. Bernard Tapie was then the owner and president of OM, and this feat has remained unique in the history of French football to this day. A few months later, OM had however been demoted to the second division as a result of the VA-OM affair, the corruption scandal which precipitated the fall of Tapie, then imprisoned.
A 3m tall statue
In the interview granted to La Provence, Benoît Payan explained about this decision that it was “our duty and our responsibility to do so”. “It is not a question here of talking about the politician or businessman, who was complex and out of the ordinary. I retain the image of the sports leader, ”he said. “Fans nicknamed him and Boss because he took OM to the very top of Europe. Today it is in our history,” he added.
Provence also indicates that Laurent Tapie, the son of the “Boss”, has planned the opening of a kitty Friday, supposedly funding a statue of her father wearing the big-eared goblet. The emblematic president will be worn by six players from 1993 who made history: Fabien Barthez, Basile Boli, Marcel Desailly, Didier Deschamps, Éric Di Meco and Franck Sauzée. The bronze statue, more than 3 m high, must be erected on the future eponymous esplanade of the Vélodrome, according to our colleagues who claim that the municipality has given the green light.
Marseille will celebrate the 30th anniversary of its C1 victory on Friday with a celebration at the Hôtel de Ville and a replay of the 1993 final on a giant screen. At 11 p.m., the supporters also planned a massive lighting of smoke bombs over more than 20 km all along the Marseille coast. The kickoff of this “cracking” will take place at Notre-Dame de la Garde.
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