Ribéry makes an emotional return to Marseille
James Horncastle
Posted on March 26th, 2012
Franck Ribéry is coming home. Not to Boulogne-sur-Mer, the place where he grew up and is about to open a shisha bar called O’Shahiz with his brother and two brothers-in-law, but to Marseille. As he walks out on the field at the Stade Vélodrome for the first leg of a Champions League quarter-final on Wednesday night, memories of the two intense years he spent there will flash before the Bayern Munich winger’s eyes. “Playing Marseille again will be special,” Ribéry told L’Équipe. “My relationship with the fans was magnificent. I was an idol.” Hailing from the same area in northern France as another club legend, Jean-Pierre Papin, it wasn’t long after he signed for Marseille in 2005 that Ribéry was adopted by a…
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