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Tracked by OM, he already declares his love
Published on March 15, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.
Folarin Balogun panics the counters this season. Loaned to Stade de Reims by Arsenal, he has already scored 16 goals in 26 games, and is closely following the top scorers in Ligue 1, Jonathan David and Kylian Mbappé, with 19 goals each. Its outbreak in Reims is inevitably noticed by Europe. Olympique de Marseille would have already looked into the matter and that’s good, because Balogun fell in love with the Vélodrome.
Folarin Balogun is only 21 years old but is already considered a future great player. The Reims striker had played his first match in France at Marseille (4-1 for OM). And for the website Ligue1.fr, he returned to this first match and the least we can say is that this baptism of fire marked him. Moreover, according to rumors from the Daily MailOM would be interested in the profile of the English striker, who still belongs to Arsenal.
“The Velodrome was something…”
The dolphin of Kylian Mbappe in the scoring charts, Folarin Balogun, spoke about his first match in France, at the Vélodrome: “ What surprised me the most? The atmosphere in Marseille! It was my first match here and I had no idea what to expect. The Vélodrome was something special: there were more than 60,000 spectators, some of them a little hostile… It surprised me because I didn’t know that Marseille was such a big football city. It got me hooked right away! »
“I think there is a lot of passion around football here”
Tracked by loonthe Marseille club did not in any case need a lot of time to seduce the nugget from Champagne: “ Overall, I think there’s a lot of passion around football here. It’s new for me. Here, we really feel the emotion of the people around us. If the supporters are not happy, they make it quite clear to you. »
