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Clermont-PSG: seven years after the tweets affair, Mory Diaw finds Paris

2022-08-06T08:25:09.231Z


Aged 29, the goalkeeper should start in the Auvergne goal this Saturday evening against his training club which he had to leave in 2015 after a


The meeting is important for Mory Diaw.

This Saturday evening (9 p.m.), the new goalkeeper of Clermont Foot receives PSG, his training club, at the Gabriel-Montpied stadium at the opening of Ligue 1. Seven years since the name of the doorman and that of the capital club were no longer associated.

And the last time, it was not for good reasons.

In the spring of 2015, when the native of Poissy approached the age of 22 and placed fourth in the hierarchy of PSG goalkeepers (behind Sirigu, Douchez or Maignan), old tweets attributed to him emerged on social networks.

Gravelly writings evoking his sex life or even fairly clear-cut opinions on the world of football, the archives of the account belonging to Mory Diaw are exposed, in the same way as those of other footballers like Morgan Sanson or Corentin Tolisso.

All these tweets date from a time (2012 or 2013) when the resonance of this social network did not have the current reach.

But two years later, in 2015, everything changed.

The following year, in 2016, another Parisian, Serge Aurier, will also pay him.

In the aftermath of the Mory Diaw affair, which also concerns the accounts of Jean-Christophe Bahebeck or Léa Declercq, dismissed from PSG, the club evokes a hack by press release.

“This story has hurt my family more”

An unrealistic excuse that no one will heed.

Including within PSG since, a few months later, Mory Diaw's contract will not be extended and his career will now have to take place far from the capital.

“I had a Twitter account but there were several of us on it, detailed Mory Diaw in 2018 for RMC Sport.

But when Twitter became trending, I put my name in and it became my account.

I put some tweets but not all.

(…) This story hurt my family more than it hurt me.

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Mory Diaw in January 2015 at the Parc des Princes during the pre-match warm-up.

LP/Frederic Dugit

The rest of his footballing history is still eventful.

With his reputation tarnished, this hopeful of the goalkeeper position is forced to leave France.

He found his first experience in the Portuguese second division then in Bulgaria.

But nothing goes as planned.

Between 2017 and 2019, Mory Diaw will no longer play in a club.

“I took advantage of my family to the fullest, even if it was not easy, he confided to Foot Mercato in 2020. They saw that I was missing what I love.

It was complicated.

Luckily I have good friends and religion in my life, otherwise I could have gone wrong.

It was finally in Switzerland that Mory Diaw found peace.

At FC United Zürich then at FC Lausanne Sport, a club with which he became second division champion in his first season.

The next two, this 1.97 m goalkeeper shines in the elite despite the poor results of Lausanne.

And so he returned to France this summer after seven years of banishment.

"My first goal was Ligue 1," he explains on the official Clermont Foot website.

It was close to my heart not having had my chance after PSG”.

Several years after having stopped Zlatan Ibrahimovic's strikes in training, Mory Diaw now has an appointment against Lionel Messi or Neymar in a match.

"It's also a nice revenge on life, proof that you should never let go," he concludes.

Source: leparis

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