The world of football is ruthless and old resentments can sometimes resurface. Even some world champions struggle to maintain a little restraint…
There are a lot of slip-ups in sport. If some pay the price during their career, others wait until the end of their career to let go, settle scores and tell their sworn enemies the truth. This is particularly the case of this former world champion who has completely let go recently.
Former player of OM, Troyes, Lille and even Sevilla, Adil Rami was at his peak a very good defender. At the height of his career he will be part of the Russian campaign, offering the World Cup to Didier Deschamps' French team in 2018. He is now retired and takes advantage of his free time in particular by producing lives on the social networks, while playing video games.
As part of the new MMA series “La Cage”, the former player was interviewed by Netflix and talked about the former president of OM, Jacques Henry Eyraud. To the question “against whom would you enter La Cage?”, Adil Rami, who is not known for his restraint, responded without really hesitating: “Jacques-Henry Eyraud. I'll beat him up! Because I don't like him simply not.”
“Eyraud is the man I hate the most in the world of football. I don't want to walk with him, I don't want to meet him, shake his hand. These people have negative vibes and dirty football “, explained the 2018 world champion in the newspaper L'Equipe in 2022, without hiding his point of view for a single second.
Why such animosity between the two men? Adil Rami's Marseille adventure ended badly in 2019. The defender, who played in Marseille for two seasons after spending time in Spain and Italy and before leaving for a year in Turkey, had in fact was dismissed by the club for “serious misconduct”.
The reason given is a stint filming the TV show “Fort Boyard” while officially, Adil Rami was recovering from an injury. Industrial tribunal proceedings are still underway (Rami's appeal after being rejected at first instance). “I lost the first round of the trial, but I am impatient to see the second round on appeal. I am rather calm,” he said at the time.
