Pape Diouf (football official)

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Pape Diouf (born December 18, 1951 in Abéché , Chad , † March 31, 2020 in Dakar ) was a Senegalese - French journalist and football official . From 2005 to 2009 he was president of the French football club Olympique Marseille .

Life

Diouf grew up in Mauritania and Senegal. At the age of 18, his father sent him to Marseille , France, to pursue a career in the military. He hid from his father that he initially found work in the post office in Marseille, but not with the armed forces. Diouf studied political science at the Institut d'études politiques in Aix-en-Provence . He gained his first experience as a journalist with the communist newspaper La Marseillaise . Among other things, he was responsible for reporting on Olympique Marseille. In 1987 he moved to the newspaper L'Hebdomadaire , and later he worked for the sports newspaper Le Sport .

In 1989 he founded the company Mondial Promotion , with which he advised football players. The trigger for the career change were the national goalkeeper of Cameroon, Joseph-Antoine Bell , and the French international Basile Boli , who had asked Diouf to act as their advisor. Later on, players like Marcel Desailly , François Omam-Biyik , Bernard Lama , Didier Drogba , Grégory Coupet and Abedi Pelé were among his clients. As a gaming agent, Diouf was a fatherly friend and life coach who called clients "my son".

In 2004 Diouf was first chairman of the board of directors of the Club Olympique Marseille and in January 2005 club president, an office he held until June 17, 2009. His appointment by Adidas manager Robert Louis-Dreyfus marks a break in sports history, as Pape Diouf was the first black president of a major European football club. Under his aegis, the club was runner-up in 2007 and 2009. In 2006 and 2007 he was also in the cup final. Under his successor Jean-Claude Dassier, Olympique became champions again in 2010 for the first time since 1993.

In 2012 Diouf was awarded the Knight of the Legion of Honor in France . After he had initially been courted as a candidate by the socialists and the Greens, he entered the mayoral election of Marseille in March 2014 for the independent left-ecological list “Changer la Donne” and received 5.6 percent of the vote.

Diouf was admitted to a hospital in the Senegalese capital Dakar with a SARS-CoV-2 infection and was to be flown to France for treatment, but died on site on March 31, 2020 at the age of 68. He was the first victim of the COVID-19 pandemic in Senegal . He was quietly interred in the Islamic cemetery in Yoff , one of the boroughs of Dakar. The Senegalese government issued a communiqué to the family on April 1, 2020.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Marwane Ben Yahmed: Le fabuleux destin de Pape Diouf. In: JeuneAfrique.com . December 16, 2008, accessed April 1, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ a b Pape Diouf, mort à 68 ans du Covid-19, à jamais Marseillais. In: France Info . March 31, 2020, accessed April 1, 2020 (French).
  3. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Mourning for the Holy Lion. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Vive émotion à l'OM après la mort de Pape Diouf, emporté par le coronavirus. Retrieved April 4, 2020 (French).
  5. ^ Diouf l'Africain, premier président noir d'un club de Ligue 1 - Ligue 1 - football. In: Le Figaro. April 1, 2020, accessed April 4, 2020 (French).
  6. ↑ Omnisports / Promotion du 14 July: Arron et Diouf à l'honneur. In: ledauphine.com . July 14, 2012, accessed April 1, 2020 (French).
  7. ^ [Changer la donne] Les travaux d'automne de Pape Diouf in Marseille. In: Gomet. September 4, 2014, accessed April 2, 2020 (French).
  8. ↑ Results of the municipality in Marseille: le FN devance le PS, l'UMP en tête. In: LeParisien.fr . March 23, 2014, accessed April 1, 2020 (French).
  9. ↑ Former Marseille President Pape Diouf died of Corona. In: Ran.de . March 31, 2020, accessed April 2, 2020 .
  10. ↑ senenews.com, April 1, 2020: Pape Diouf inhumé à Yoff, dans la plus grande discrétion
  11. ↑ Communiqué No. 31 of April 1, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Diouf, Pape
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senegalese-French journalist and football official
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Abéché , Chad
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 2020
Place of death Dakar , Senegal