By TL with AFP
Published
April 27, 2025 at 9:13 p.m.,
updated April 27, 2025 at 10:09 p.m.
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Before the Ligue 1 meeting against Brest, OM supporters wanted to pay a good tribute to pope Francis, who died last Monday.
OM supporters paid tribute Sunday in the stands of the Vélodrome stadium to Pope Francis, who died on Monday, who had visited Marseille in September 2023.
Before the match kick -off against Brest, South Winners supporters, one of the main OM fans groups, deployed a huge “Tifo” In the colors of the Argentinian flag and a large sail with the image of Pope Francis, smiling and greeting the crowd.
The Winners had already released this sail in September 2023, when the Pope and his «Kapamobile» had entered the enclosure, before a mass celebrated in front of 60,000 faithful.
On Sunday, they also deployed two banners on which we could read “Thank you Pape Francis” et “I come to Marseille, not in France”a sentence pronounced by the Argentinian pope before his arrival in Provence. “We shared the same values as him, who has always been alongside the poor and underprivileged”had written Winners this week in a press release.
On Saturday, the Italian coach of OM Roberto de Zerbi had already praised the memory “From man Jorge Bergoglio”, “Always sensitive to marginalized, the last, the weakest, and who has always been against the powers”.
