Éric Di Meco was marking Vata when the Benfica player scored a controversial goal in the Champions League semi-final second leg of 1990. The Olympique de Marseille legend saw the Angolan again thirty-four years later in the program “Rothen s' ignites” broadcast Monday on RMC.
OM, 8th in Ligue 1, returns to Lisbon this Thursday (9 p.m.) in the quarter-final first leg of the Europa League, in the hope of saving a gloomy season. The former OM glory who experienced the “hand of Vata” in 1990, is pessimistic before the match. He was in the front row when Vata scored the controversial goal. He is now in Australia and spoke with Vata for the first time since 1990. It went well. We no longer knew where he was, Jérôme Rothen managed to find her. The first good news was that he speaks French. This made it possible to have a conversation with him.