“The funds collected on our partner platform MatchWornShirt will be donated (…) to Secours populaire français which intervenes on site with its local associative partners“, explained OM in a press release on Saturday.
“Olympique de Marseille and Mayotte share a long common history, notably marked by the presence of numerous Olympian supporters on site but also the passage to Bleu et Blanc in the 2000s, of Toifilou Maoulida“, added the Marseille club. Attacker for OM from 2006 to 2007, but also for Rennes, Montpellier or Monaco, Maoulida was born in Mayotte.
Keyliane Abdallah, one of his nephews, who also grew up between Mayotte and Marseille, is currently part of the OM squad. This is also the case for Raimane Daou, born in Mayotte and international for the Comoros, the neighboring archipelago of Mayotte, off the coast of East Africa.
“The president, Pablo Longoria, and all the components of the club, provide their full support to the people overseas as well as to the loved ones of these two players, affected by this tragic situation, and join in the pain of all the victims and of their families“, adds OM in its press release.
A week after the passage of Cyclone Chido, the provisional toll stands at 35 dead and some 2,500 injured, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior. But “it is likely that there are many more victims“, recognized Emmanuel Macron, recalling that a mission had been carried out to establish an exact assessment.
