Jacques Glassmann

Jacques Glassmann
Personal information
Date of birth (1962-07-22) 22 July 1962 (age 62)
Place of birth Mulhouse, France
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1978–1984 Strasbourg 41 (2)
1984–1987 Mulhouse 97 (7)
1987–1988 Tours 32 (2)
1988–1994 Valenciennes 178 (19)
1994–1995 US Maubeuge 7 (0)
Total 348 (30)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jacques Glassmann (born 22 July 1962) is a French former footballer who played as a defender.

He is famous for having revealed the bribery scandal involving Olympique de Marseille and his team US Valenciennes. He[2] and teammates Jorge Burruchaga[3] and Christophe Robert[3] were contacted by Marseille player Jean-Jacques Eydelie[4] in order to let Marseille win and, more importantly, not to injure any Marseille player ahead of the 1993 UEFA Champions League Final.

He was eventually awarded the FIFA Fair Play Award in 1995 for having revealed this bribery scandal.

  1. ^ "Jacques Glassmann". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Tapie Directly Implicated As Marseille Trial Opens". International Herald Tribute. 14 March 1995. Retrieved 12 March 2007.
  3. ^ a b "Argentine Charged in Marseille case". New York Times. 2 July 1993. Retrieved 12 March 2007.
  4. ^ "Wenger slams former Marseille Chairman". Eurosport. 23 January 2006. Archived from the original on 17 March 2006. Retrieved 12 March 2007.