Legendary central defender of Olympique de Marseille, Basile Boli loved to push the song in the locker room as told by his former teammate Jean-Philippe Durand. Maybe even a little too much …
Questioned by Provence about his best memories at Olympique de Marseille, former midfielder Jean-Philippe Durand remembered a hilarious anecdote just before a match against AS Saint-Etienne.
“One situation made me laugh and smile a lot. It transcribes the atmosphere there could be in the team that won the European Cup. It happened at the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium. Before a match, we cannot say that our locker room was bathed in concentration and meditation. There was always noise, we were doing the idiots, with Basile (Boli). Tapie was not the last. Basile liked to sing. At one point, the song “Go Greens!” going on in the stadium. Basil begins to sing it. Then half of the locker room begins to sing it! I am facing the front door of the cloakroom, a manager from Stéphane brings us something. He opens the door and falls on the Marseilles cloakroom singing “Allez les Verts!”. He stopped, had to hallucinate and left without putting down what he was bringing. He must have said we were jerks. Especially since it was ten minutes before kick-off! I was laughing. And we won (2-0). “