While he was coach of Olympique de Marseille, Didier Deschamps had not managed to convince Benoît Tremoulinas to join him in the sky and white.
Despite the rivalry that has existed for several decades between Olympique de Marseille and the Girondins de Bordeaux for several decades, many players did not hesitate to leave the club at the Scapulaire to join the sky and white. And not the least since Jean Tigana and Alain Giresse, two of the most beautiful symbols of the Girondins, took the plunge at the end of the 80s.
More recently, Souleymane Diawara, just crowned champion of France with Bordeaux imita in 2009. Sochalien’s teammate, Benoit Trémoulinas could also have accompanied the Senegalese international. But despite the court of Didier Deschamps, then on the OM bench, the Bordeaux by birth did not hesitate to repel the advances of the Olympian club.
“” We are starting to ask a few questions, we wonder if it’s an end of the cycle. I am offered Marseille. There had been Didier Deschamps and José Anigo who called me to sign at OM. I was not very hot, I wanted to stay in Bordeaux. And I am still a supporter of the Girondins, and we know that there is a small rivalry with Marseille ”, He said to Colinterview.
The rivalry between OM and Bordeaux weighed
“I still wanted to stay at the club. Gourcuff had left, Souley left too, but there was still a base that was there. Yes, there have been some initial ideas, but no more than that ”, he continued, adding:
“I was number 1, but there was rivalry with OM. It is a very big club with a crazy audience. There are a lot of players who dream of playing OM, the stadium is full, there is a crazy atmosphere … It’s a very big club, but I did not want to go abroad. »»
Arrived from the age of 7 among the Girondins, Benoit Trémoulinas finally left Bordeaux in 2013, four years after the OM approach, to go into exile in Ukraine, at Dynamo kyiv, where only one year left before returning to Saint-Etienne.
