Iconic player and former OM captain, Mamadou Niang is a candidate in the Marseille municipal elections for the Republic on the Move (LREM) alongside Yvon Berland. It will appear in the 15th and 16th arrondissements of Marseille. "Very attached to Marseille, I will transform tomorrow the city of which I was so proud to wear the colors," said the former footballer in a statement Wednesday.
Welcome to our team my dear @ mamadniang11! Your commitment & your energy will be precious to us to win this campaign and transform #Marseille! # # Berland2020 Municipales2020pic.twitter.com / wP2wHWNeQp
- Yvon BERLAND (@YvonBerland) February 5, 2020Yvon Berland wishes to overcome the image of Mamadou Niang's footballer: “What is even more important is that we have someone who, beyond football in his career, has become involved as a citizen in the world association with important work in certain districts of the city. Finally, it is as much the engaged citizen who brings his reputation to the city, as the footballer that we want to highlight. "
Current sports director of Athletico de Marseille, Mamadou Niang wants to encourage young people to register on the electoral lists and to go to vote. For him, if they do not vote today, "it is not because they do not want, it is because they are not aware of anything".
The former footballer is not the only sportsman to have signed up for the municipal elections, the former French handball player Jackson Richardson also appeared in Marseille on the LR list of Senator Bruno Gilles.
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