"They make great equipment, eh?"
Before settling in front of the TV, Mokthar Kreifeur puts on his PSG jersey.
His friend Didier ostensibly spits on the ground.
"Put it down!"
I need a doormat, my shoes are dirty, ”Djamal room, who wears a t-shirt in OM colors.
Mokthar Kreifeur is used to it.
This kind of reaction does not make him hot or cold.
This PSG supporter, originally from Elbeuf, in Seine-Maritime, landed in Marseille in 1996. "I fell in love with the city," says the forty-something.
I am of Algerian origin… And, here, it is as if I were in the village!
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His wife is Marseillaise, his son was born in Marseille, but Mokthar Kreifeur has never let go of PSG.
He fell into it in "the time of the Valdo, George Weah, David Ginola".
It was especially the atmosphere of the Park that capsized him: “My father took me to the stadium every two weeks.
With the Ultras, it was boiling hot, extraordinary.
Impossible not to like.
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At Gavotte-Peyret, in the northern suburbs of Marseille, Mokthar Kreifeur is nicknamed "the Parisian."
That didn't stop him from getting close to Samir Nasri.
But the former OM attacking midfielder failed to convert this “big brother” from the neighborhood: “It was not easy to have a friend who played for OM.
I was in between.
I wanted him to score, to have a good note in the newspapers… But that PSG win in the end!
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The defeat will not prevent him from assuming his love for Paris
It's missed this time (0-1).
"I will no longer come to watch the matches with you," says Mokthar Kreifeur to his friends at SO Septèmes, where this former number 10 has just signed, as a trainer.
“Paris has the biggest budget in Ligue 1 and we are barragists,” he sighs.
But the defeat is deserved: it was a very small PSG.
It reminds me of the team before Qatar.
We weren't playing, there was nothing at all.
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The defeat will not prevent him from assuming his love for Paris.
He will wear his PSG jersey again this week in Marseille.
“I never do it on match days because I'm not into provocation.
But otherwise, it never poses a problem, ”says Mokthar.
A few jokes, a few "spades", like after the defeat in the Champions League.
“I was on vacation and my return to Marseille was really difficult,” he sighs.
I was not well, my colleagues confused me all the time.
»But without aggression.
Mokthar Kreifeur proudly displays its colors in the Old Port or in the northern districts.
He believes the rivalry is not what it once was.
“The PSG jersey is fashionable,” smiles Mokthar.
We see more and more young Marseillais who wear it.
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