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White shirt and impeccable blue suit, OM logo mask, Jacques Cardoze welcomes us all smiles in the passageways of a Stade-Velodrome which is busy on the eve of Marseille-Galatasaray on September 29 in the Europa League (0-0).
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We sit in the stands, the place is worth a look
", Advances, relaxed and proud, the new director of communication of the club.
That day, the sun shines on the Olympian enclosure, which will catch fire the next day with, in particular, clashes between supporters of the two camps and a match interrupted due to firecrackers and smoke.
As since his arrival on June 15, the former war reporter from France Televisions, 52, does not hide and appears on the front line to the point of asking Marseille supporters in the middle of a match to calm down.
For an intense and muscular baptism of fire.
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