Legend of French football, he had a very special ritual before the matches …
Rituals in the world of sport are an integral part of the daily life of sportsmen. Whether a few hours, minutes, before or during the meeting, some need these very precise habits and can even associate poor individual or collective performance with the failure of these.
Sometimes these rituals have a simple placebo effect, like the famous jersey of the Brazilian legend Pelé, which he had given before asking to recover it because his performances were less good … His team had made him believe that the original jersey had been found and restored, and the performances of the Brazilian had returned to normal, when it was not his real jersey!
In France, another football legend had a fairly surprising and disturbing ritual for some. His name, Basile Boli. Unique scorer in the Champions League final in 1993 and French international with 45 selections to his credit, the defender simply put on the same Slip before the matches for 10 years …
In the magazine France Football, in 1999, Basile Boli delivered a fairly astounding anecdote about the 1993 legendary Champions League final and this famous sacred clothing … “It was all white, my wife made him meat and pushed him all the time. As I had worn in Bari, Abedi (Pelé, OM player at the same time – Editor’s note) didn’t want me to put him in Munich! “He was having fun at first, before telling the rest.
“But I had put it. When I got out of the locker room to go to the field, Didier (Deschamps) and Marcel (Desailly) came to see me and asked me if I had. I replied, yes, I saw it in their eyes, even if it was nothing, that it did us good to know it! But after, Marcel Desailly. This panties … “explained Basile Boli.
The former player is now very involved in the OM management team and in the club in general. He had a role of ambassador for a few years and is still present in the stands of the Vélodrome stadium during the Olympian meetings at home.