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March 3, 2021
Orange Velodrome is a stadium in Marseille, France. One of the best and most beautiful sports facilities in Europe. In addition to home matches, it was used for the games of the 1938 and 1998 World Cups, the 1960, 1984 and 2016 European Championships. The largest of the club football stadiums in France.It was founded in 1935, opened in 1937. It was reconstructed in 1971, 1983, 1998 and 2014. The owner is the City Hall of Marseille. The capacity is 67,394 people. The home team is Olympique Marseille, Toulon, the
size of the field is 105×68 m. The coating is natural.
On June 11, 2016, at the European Football Championship, a match between the Russian and English national teams took place in Marseille, which ended in a draw 1:1. The day before the match, British football fans began to provoke riots. They began with a fight with the French at the Queen Victoria pub and continued both during and after the match. Drunken Englishmen, over 2 thousand people, gathered in large groups and walked through the streets of the city, organizing pogroms and beating the French who came under their hands. Police used water cannons and tear gas to calm them down, but to no avail. This continued until the British attacked a group of Russian fans leaving the stadium. I must say that the first clashes began in the stands of the stadium, but they "faded away" due to the intervention of the police. There were less than 200 of our fans, and when the cry sounded: "Our people are being beaten!", they immediately gathered in one group, joined by a few Ukrainian and Belarusian fans (about 30 people). Forming a "wedge", the Slavs moved against the British, two hundred against two thousand, one against ten.. I can't describe what happened after that - the Moderator doesn't miss how our people drove the British all over Marseille
It will be enough that the very next day, Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham called on British Home Secretary Theresa May to make a statement in parliament. He said: "The whole country is shocked by the frightening scenes of violence in Marseille. As always, the troublemakers, who make up a smaller part of the fans, ruined what should have been a joyful event and put the safety of innocent people at risk."
"Although the English fans are not perfect either, it is quite obvious that the situation changed yesterday, and they became the objects of extremely brazen provocations and violence. The tournament is ongoing and there are concerns about the safety of fans from all the founding countries of the United Kingdom."
The Western press has begun its "investigations". It is ridiculous to read the nonsense sucked out of your finger that Putin's "militants" connected with the special services and trained in Marseille, from among those who served in the Airborne Forces and Special Forces, allegedly practiced dispersal of opposition rallies on English fans. On our side, they were ordinary fans, the backbone of which was made up of Lokomotiv fans. By the way, with all due respect to Lokomotiv, their fighters are quite "modest" in comparison with the vanguard of the leading groups Spartak, CSKA and Zenit. The British are also, one might say, exceptionally lucky. There was a lot of writing about the fact that none of the Russian fans were detained. Allegedly because they all received special training, having managed to disappear into the alleys without a trace, like a ninja, after the action. Nonsense. None of our people were detained because they were leaving in an organized group, which the police were simply afraid to contact. They walked away with a calm step, no one was running anywhere.
I liked the Russian President's answer to the question of how he feels about the events in Marseille: "The European Championship is underway now, but they pay less attention to football than to the fights of fans. It's very sad, and I regret it. The fight between Russian fans and English fans is a complete disgrace. However, I do not understand how 200 of our fans "marked" several thousand Englishmen there,"
And then another unfortunate time, a few days after Marseille, awarding in honor of Russia Day, retired generals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB with orders of Merit for the Fatherland. What has been raised here, what has not been written about it in the Western press, they say, they have identified the leaders of our fans. Personally, I liked the collage where all these awardees are depicted with injuries and bandaged faces, and the GDP thanks them for the victory in Marseille. Complete nonsense. I can confidently say that if these retired generals /of the old Soviet school/ had been in Marseille then, then on the same night, the Russian /or, most likely, the red/ flag would have been flying over the city hall.
Here is a story about one EURO 2016 football match. I must say that I condemn the fights of football fans and I am sorry, well, very sorry, for the beaten /or not finished / Britons.
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January 30, 2022
The Velodrome stadium, built in 1937, was opened on June 13, 1937. The stadium is located in the southern part
Marseille, 3.5 km from its center. The capacity is 60031 spectators. There is a football team playing in this stadium
Marseille Olympic, founded on August 31, 1899, winner of the Champions League, repeated participant, champion of Ligue 1 in football, champion of the
France.
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October 16, 2023
A great stadium, we were sitting with friends at a match one day and suddenly a taxi drives into the field and drops off some sissy. In general, I advise 👍🏻
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