No qualification, but a happy ending nonetheless.
This Sunday, the fans of Cannet-Rocheville moved to the lawn of the Olympique de Marseille to play their 32nd final of the Coupe de France.
For their first appearance at this stage of the competition, they did not achieve a feat and logically bowed (4-1).
But the post-match still gave rise to a pretty scene: a marriage proposal on the lawn of the Vélodrome.
Cannet Rocheville players emerge on the lawn, make a guard of honor.
At the end, a player proposes to his partner, kneeling on the lawn of the Velodrome and applauded by the whole stadium.
#OM pic.twitter.com/1HLLp6jVcz
- Fabrice Lamperti (@ gouffa83) December 19, 2021
Once the end of the match was whistled, the Phocéens lined up to make a guard of honor for the players of Nationale 3, from the Alpes-Maritimes.
This is the moment that José Mendes Furtado chose to put his knee to the ground and make his request to his fiancée, to the applause of the audience.
A gesture which symbolized the state of mind of the visitors, certainly sportingly disappointed, but already happy with this "great memory", says Farid Tabet, their trainer.
There's a cannet player he asked his wife to marry him at STADIUM wsh football it's incredible 🤩
- TysmaaaSheshh 🙌🏼✌🏼 (@tysmaashesh) December 19, 2021
Sportingly, Cannet-Rocheville still made Jorge Sampaoli's men doubt, at least at the start of the match.
They are even the ones who opened the scoring, by Mike Coré (1-0, 17th).
But a fault by Iheb Lahouel in its area, synonymous with expulsion and penalty for OM, transformed by Arkadiusz Milik.
At 10 against 11, the gap was too large: the Pole offered himself a hat-trick and Luis Henrique confirmed a comfortable victory for the Marseillais.
