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Journalist
Graduated from Journalism School in Paris. Specializing in football, and more particularly on the transfer window. Fan of PSG and Stade Français.
Appointed to the position of sports advisor to OM in November 2023, Medhi Benatia therefore returned to his roots, having been trained within the Marseille club. And while he bitterly regrets not having broken through at that time with OM, Benatia therefore sees this new experience as manager as a great revenge.
Before wearing the colors of the Juventus Turin a you Bayern Munich at the peak of his career, Medhi Benatia had been trained inABOUT ! But the former Moroccan central defender never managed to break through with the professional group at the time, leaving on a free Clermont in 2008. And while he now occupies a major role at OM as a sports advisor, Benatia enjoy this beautiful revenge.
“An open wound…”
Asked about RMC Sport Tuesday, the leader of theABOUT took on this challenge, not without a certain emotion: “ Management has always interested me. When I had Pablo ask me, at that time, I could have accepted only Marseille. I did my training at OM, my mother still lives there. I have family. I would have loved to play a match, even if only in Ligue 1, at the Vélodrome. I wasn't so lucky. It was an open wound not to play at the Vélodrome. I was a ball boy, I know what it's like », confides Medhi Benatia.
Benatia immediately attracted by a return to OM
« Pablo is a great professional, I was tempted to work with this kind of person. He told me that this year was complicated (in 2023-2024), we have to finish as best as possible and start again on solid foundations. It tempted me », Continues the former central defender. A nice revenge.
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