{"id":404883,"date":"2017-07-24T20:09:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T20:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/07\/24\/marseille-concocted-abedi-peles-hiv-status-bernard-tapie\/"},"modified":"2017-07-24T20:09:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T20:09:24","slug":"marseille-concocted-abedi-peles-hiv-status-bernard-tapie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/24\/marseille-concocted-abedi-peles-hiv-status-bernard-tapie\/","title":{"rendered":"Marseille concocted Abedi Pele\u2019s HIV Status \u2013 Bernard Tapie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Monday, 24 July 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Starrfmonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-07-24<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/67270305.295.jpg\" alt=\"Pele Tapie\" title=\"Pele Tapie\" width=\"295\" height=\"149\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Abedi Pele with his former Manager Bernard Tapie<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385178506\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385178506\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1500926964_275_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former president of French club Olympique Marseille Bernard Tapie has revealed how his club succeeded in signing the African prodigy Abedi Ayew Pele in 1987 from Mulhouse at the expense of rivals AS Monaco \u2013 by deploying a bizarre strategy that worked well.<\/p>\n<p>Pele was the subject a transfer saga as the principality club and Tapie\u2019s Marseille competed in the market for the signature of the Ghanaian playmaker and Tapie knew the only way his club was going to win the battle was to deploy a master plan that Pele had AIDS.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists at Le Monde , Fabrice Lhomme and Gerard Davet last Friday, Tapie said with Pele scheduled to undergo a medical test at AS Monaco, he , conspired with an official of AS Monaco to concoct a falsehood that the Ghanaian player was HIV positive as that will end Monaco\u2019s interest in the player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know what, I told the player (Pele) that when he arrives at Monaco for the medical examination , he will be asked to take a blood test which is done for African players but that he should not agree, that he should tell them he cannot support the blood test. At the same time I conspired with an employee at AS Monaco who was a known figure within the club and instructed him to fabricate a falsehood that the player was HIV positive. You know we escaped beautifully and the plan worked well . He told me we (Monaco) didn\u2019t take Pele because he is HIV positive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Marseille were now free from the Monaco competition and went on to sign Abedi Pele the next day and the African genius would help them to lift the Champions league title in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIts like that , you have to win\u201d said the 74-year old Tapie.<\/p>\n<p>The once controversial football figure also revealed that Valium was put into the drinks of the Marseille manager Raymond Goethals that calmed him to the extent that he allowed single players on the team to go out with girls at the hotel the day before a game will be played.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am ashamed of myself but we have to accept what we are, with the good and the bad,\u201d Monsieur Tapie added.<\/p>\n<p>Tapie\u2019s Marseille were stripped of a Ligue 1 title in 1993 for allegedly fixing a league game against Valenciennes before their Champions league final versus AC Milan which the French side won. Marseille later suffered demotion in France due to the match fixing as Tapei himself was slapped with a 2-year prison sentence for financial irregularities.<\/p>\n<p>Tapie\u2019s revelations go on to confirm public perceptions that the game is never a clean sport and serious things happen behind the scenes that could only come to public knowledge by some of these disclosures.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BsTeLWOJLRg?ecver=2\" style=\"position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 55 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Monday, 24 July 2017 Source: Starrfmonline.com 2017-07-24 play videoAbedi Pele with his former Manager Bernard Tapie &#13; 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