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The love story between Mathieu Valbuena and Olympiakos is not yet over. According to The teamthe French attacking midfielder is preparing to return to the Piraeus club, two years after leaving him. Despite his 40th anniversary, Valbuena comes out of a season completed at the Athens Kallithea (35 matches, 3 goals, 4 assists), which he did not manage to maintain in the Greek first division. Always as passionate, the former Marseillais chose to extend the pleasure. The reigning Greece champion, qualified for the next phase as a champions League group, would offer him a hybrid role: between the first team and the reserve (which will play in the second division with a professional status).
A way to gently support the end of your career while preparing your future. Because the future, Valbuena already thinks about it. He also founded his own academy in Athens, the Valbuena Academy, to transmit to young people “the values of work but also of pleasure”, in his words. This last season on the ground could be the prelude to a retraining within the club, in a role of supervision of young talents. The “little bike”, which has wore the Blues jersey 52 times, will also find an old acquaintance: Rémy Cabella, freshly arrived at Olympiakos.
Stranger: the comeback of Mathieu Valbuena
The love story between Mathieu Valbuena and Olympiakos is not yet over. According to the team, the French attacking midfielder is preparing to return to the Pirée club, two years after leaving him.
