Rami: “They have tried to drown me many times, but I get up”

Adil Rami left Marseille in the summer of 2019 and never concealed his dislike for the French club’s president. zak–Henry Εϊρό. The former Valencia and Sevilla defender was released from the team at the time was absent from training on May 20th to take part in the reality show “Fort Boyard” on French television, of which the club had not been informed.

In an interview with Equipe newspaper, the 36-year-old Frenchman stressed that the strongman from Marseille is the man he hates most in the world of football.

At the same time, Rami revealed that before his transfer to Troyes last summer, there were people trying to stop him, even getting him to stop playing football.

“Eiro is the man I hate the most in the world of football. I don’t want to walk next to him, I don’t want to meet him, shake his hand. These people have negative energy and they cloud football. I missed the first round of trials (release for serious misconduct) but I’m looking forward to the second round of appeals. i’m pretty calm“, said the France international, who then spoke about his decision to join Troyes last summer.

“I was lucky because François Vitali (the sporting director he knew in Lille) knows my mentality. When I left Marseille, influential people did everything they could to prevent me from returning to Ligue 1. That was her greatest fear. We did everything to stop playing football. There I said to myself that I can be proud of myself. They’ve tried to drown me many times, but I’m still there and I’m getting up“.