A minute's silence and funeral floral in both teams: The semi-final second leg of the European Conference League between Olympique Marseille and Feyenoord Rotterdam is under special signs on Thursday.
Football games on May 5 in France are actually banned by law in France in memories of the 1982 stadium disaster. However, this regulation does not apply to European competitions.
"When May 5th was known as the date and we qualified, it was a matter of course for us to ask the UEFA to make this game an encounter of the memory," said Olympique spokesman Jacques Cardoze.
It was only on October 14, 2021 that a law was adopted in France that prohibited professional football on the anniversary of the tragedy. The associations of the victims now agreed, as well as OM, as well as OM to play the home game against Feyenoord.
On May 5, 1992, 19 people were killed in the collapse of a grandstand before the cup semi-final between SC Bastia and Olympique, 2357 spectators were injured. The tragedy in the Furiani stadium is considered the worst disaster in French Conference Leagues history. Members of the victims and SC Bastia had repeatedly called for a general ban on all games on the date of the catastrophe.
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