Olmeta fired from OL, back on a completely uncontrolled skid

Pascal Olmeta has been dismissed for OL for 28 years for hitting his teammate Jean-Luc Sassus, which he estimated too close to his partner at the time.

While the VA-OM affair took on a substantial media scale during the summer of 1993, Pascal Olmeta left the Marseille city to join Olympique Lyonnais. Quickly became the darling of Stade Gerland, the goalkeeper will nevertheless ended up being dismissed by the Rhone club in January 1997.

A few days earlier, on December 20, 1996, the native of Bastia had struck his teaming Jean-Luc Sassus. The latter, who died in May 2015, got away with a fracture of the nose and a head trauma. Olmeta reproached him at the time a certain proximity with his partner.

Olmeta fired, the young bowl recruited at Sainté to replace him

“In this story, I don't want to Aulas, but to this swelling of Bernard Lacombehe had entrusted in the columns of So football in September 2018. When I come across it, he always puts himself behind someone so as not to feel the wind of the slap. Subsequently, I had the opportunity to explain myself with Aulas: it was more embarrassed than anything else, because you felt that things did not come from him. »»

It was the young Grégory Coupet, exchanged for Jean-Luc Sassus, who had then replaced Pascal Olmeta in the goals of OL. As for this one, he had tried experience abroad, at Espanyol Barcelona. In lack of playing time, he returned to his native island of beauty, in Gazélec Ajaccio, to end his career there.