Every football player has a dream club for which he wants to play for, when he starts playing as a kid. Most of them don’t fulfill their wish over the course of their playing career, while others have the quality (and a bit of luck) to do that. Some of them start and finish their careers in a beloved club, like famous Francesco Totti, Paolo Maldini, Carlos Puyol or Ryan Giggs, while others spend part of their careers with a boyhood club before their depart elsewhere, for different reasons. Some or sold by their clubs, while others decide to leave, just like Florian Thauvin. The former Olympique Marseille winger decided to leave his favorite club last season and went to Mexican league, and he recently opened up about his decision, citing a mental weariness and psychologically difficult things to swallow as one of the reasons.Mane was “joking” about leaving Liverpool, but he seriously loves Olympique de MarseilleSpeaking with RMS Sports, the former World Cup winner with France U-20 selection in 2013 and senior team in 2018, talked about his childhood dream of playing for the France’s most popular club, Olympique Marseille but also reveals all the difficulties which comes with the territory, which is why he choose to leave the club in 2019 as a free agent and go to Mexico.“What you need to know is that by signing for OM, it was a childhood dream. So I had managed to realize my dream and also had the chance to become the world champion at the time when I was at OM. The second thing is that I spent seven years at OM. It’s an extraordinary club, which is magnificent, but it’s a club which is tough. There is a lot of pressure on a daily basis, I went through difficult times, especially psychologically where certain things were difficult to swallow. It’s a constant pressure, It’s a club very often on the front of the stage so there is an obligation of result, pressure from the media and then there is pressure from the fans. You often do the emotional lift, it’s a club with great passion. When you play well one week you are the best player in the world and the week after you are no longer to put on the field. These are things that I had a hard time living with and it lasted for many years and at a certain point I lost this passion” explained Thauvin.(2.45) ATLAS (3.00) CRUZ AZUL (3.05)Another ex-Marseille player Andre-Pierre Gignac, also a France international and Ligue 1 top scorer in 2008 surprised everybody when he swamped the south of France with Mexico, signing for Tigres in 2015, and last season, he managed to persuade Thauvin to do the same. After experiencing some form of depression while in Marseille and after consulting a mental trainer, former Newcastle player explained one of the reasons for the decision to go to Mexico.“What was important for me was to rediscover this passion for football, the one you play when you are a kid, where you don’t ask questions, where there are no worries in the locker room, where there is a family atmosphere, a bit like we had in Bastia. It’s also something like that that was really important to me. And here in Mexico, that’s what I found. The locker room is a big family. Training is over, we have a barbecue on the pitch together, our children come to training, we train on one part of the pitch and they all play together on the other. It’s another context and another mentality. In Europe, in the locker room, it’s everyone for their own face and it’s very complicated. I experienced it for quite a few years at OM and I didn’t want that anymore” said Thauvin.
