Tributes paid to ex-Olympique Marseille president Diouf

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“He was a man of conviction, a man of wit and passion for the game and all those involved in it.”

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Diouf, who became the first-ever black president of a top European football club, died on Tuesday in Dakar, his family told AFP.

Diouf was hospitalised in Senegal after contracting the virus there and became the country’s first COVID-19 fatality. After dropping out of university he worked at the La Marseillaise newspaper before changing careers to become a football agent, handling some of Africa’s top talent including Didier Drogba, who enthralled Marseille’s Stade Velodrome in 2003-04.

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Rest In Peace papa Diouf, you will be missed forever!

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