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We Get Spartak Moscow…
By: Magnusson | For those of you who follow Marseille closely, Moscow and the Luzhniki stadium is a sore memory. It is the stadium that hosted our defeat to Parma Ac the year of our centennial. It was already the UEFA Cup and we got destroyed by Hernan Crespo Parma.
We’ll meet the russians on Valentine’s day 2008 [...]
Juan Angel Krupoviesa, the rumor that refuses to die…
By: Magnusson |Fresh off their defeat to Milan Ac at the FIFA Club’s World Cup, Boca Junior president Pedro Pompillio declared that Juan Angel Krupoviesa was about to be transferred to Marseille this winter. The Krupoviesa rumor started of course when Anigo insisted on seeing the Boca Junior B team play while he was in Argentina (Juan [...]
Guillaume Hoarau is flirting with Marseille…
By: Magnusson |Revelation of the Ligue 2 with Le Havre so far, Guillaume Hoarau (23 years old, 18 matches and 15 goals this season) is the most talked about striker this side of Karim Benzema. It is logical that the young goleador would be this much in demand by the Ligue 1 most prestigious clubs (except maybe [...]
Karim Ziani, Algerian Player of the Year…
By: Magnusson |On sunday night, Just after the Bordeaux game, Karim Ziani and Jacques Faty flew from Bordeaux to Algiers, capital of Algeria, to receive the trophy for Algerian Player of the Year 2007 awarded to the former thanks to his amazing performances with Sochaux all throughout the 2006/2007 season which ended in the fairytale ending that [...]
First official mercato signing, Charles Kaboré…
By: Magnusson |After Mathieu Valbuena two seasons ago and Vincent Gragnic this summer, Marseille will be atking another raw diamond from Libourne Saint-Seurin in National, Charles Kaboré. The very good relationship these two clubs ahve been having helped us snatch the man that has been compared for two years now to Michael Essien and Djila Diarra. It [...]
Bordeaux 2-2 Marseille…
By: Magnusson |October 30th 1977, that was the last time Marseille beat Bordeaux at Bordeaux. And the streak will continue. At least we got a draw and if you had told me before the game that we would get a point there, I would have signed in a heartbeat. But after having watched the game on sunday, [...]
Franck Ribery, French Player of the Year…
By: Magnusson |Two weeks after the Ballon d’Or that went to Kakà, France Football gives a trophy to the French Player of the Year. And after many years of Thierry Henry domination(5 trophies and four in a row from ‘03 to ‘06), this year it rightfully went to Franck Ribery for his outstanding performances for Marseille [...]
Rumor - Carlos Valencia
By: Magnusson |After a few weeks in Argentina, José anigo wrote a lot of names on his wishlist for Christmas and the truth is we don’t know what to believe since apparently every agent in the game is trying to get their players some hype by linking them to Marseille. Eevrytime, I’ll hear some rumor from a [...]
And six months ago…
By: Magnusson |Six Months ago, we were finishing a great season with a qualification to the Champions League and a final of the Coupe de France that we lost in the penalties to Sochaux. Three of our players were called up by Uncle Ray Ray for the Euro qualifiers (Franck Ribery, Samir Nasri and Djibril Cissé). We [...]
Grand Opening, Grand Closing.
By: Magnusson |Ten minutes. That’s all it took for Liverpool to make sure they went through. I had to watch the game three more times to look for something. I don’t know what I was looking for but maybe in the midst of it I might have missed the fighting spirit. And I have to say I [...]







