Free since his departure from Juventus this summer, Adrien Rabiot is preparing to sign with OM. Born in Val-de-Marne, the former PSG midfielder supported Marseille when he was young, according to some of his former teammates at Créteil.
A Parisian kid with a sky and white heart. Adrien Rabiot made a name for himself in the colours of PSG, where he completed his training before starting his professional career in 2012. Until he became one of the faces of the youth of the capital club, whose jersey he wore 227 times (all competitions combined). With 24 goals, 14 assists and a myriad of trophies, including six championship titles. But the native of Saint-Maurice (Val-de-Marne), about ten kilometres south-east of Paris, first vibrated for OM in his youth…
This is in any case what several of his former teammates explained to So Foot in February 2019. As part of a profile that the specialist magazine dedicated to him at the time, players that Adrien Rabiot rubbed shoulders with at US Créteil-Lusitanos, his first club, described him as a Marseille supporter. “During the clasicos, he was clearly for OM,” confided Abdelhak Benaniba, who shared the same locker room in the 94. “He was fully behind them,” added Jacky Locko, another of his former teammates.
“Adrien has always loved OM”
While Adrien Rabiot is set to sign freely with OM after leaving Juventus this summer, a manager from the Marseille club quoted by L'Équipe recalled his attraction to the Vélodrome on Monday: “Adrien always loved OM when he was a child, his heart leaned towards Marseille during the Classics that he watched as a child.”
After wearing out his first boots at Créteil and having played for Manchester City and Pau, the French international (48 caps, 4 goals) joined PSG at the age of 15, before Carlo Ancelotti threw him into the deep end two years later. Represented by his mother Véronique Rabiot, the one nicknamed “the Duke” ended up leaving the French champions at the end of his contract in the summer of 2019. After a long conflict with his management and several months without playing a single match. Enough to tarnish his image among Parisian supporters, who did not hesitate to boo him during his last appearances in the capital.
