Jacques Glassmann
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Jacques Glassmann is a city and commune in eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. With a population of 110,514 and 278,206 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2006, it is the largest city in the Haut-Rhin département, and the second largest in the Alsace region after...
) is a former footballer
Football (soccer)
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from France
France
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He is famous for having revealed the bribery scandal involving Olympique de Marseille
Olympique de Marseille
Olympique de Marseille is a French association football club based in Marseille. Founded in 1899, the club plays in Ligue 1 and have spent most of its history in the top tier of French football. Marseille have been French champions nine times and have won the Coupe de France a record ten times. In...
and his team US Valenciennes. He and fellow teammates, Jorge Burruchaga
Jorge Burruchaga
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and Christophe Robert
Christophe Robert
Christophe Robert is a former footballer from France.He is famous for having been involved in the bribery scandal involving Olympique de Marseille and his team US Valenciennes...
were contacted by OM player Jean-Jacques Eydelie
Jean-Jacques Eydelie
Jean-Jacques Eydelie is a French former footballer most noted for his role in the Marseille match-fixing scandal of 1993. A midfielder, Eydelie began his career with Nantes, before joining Marseille in 1992...
, in order to let l'OM win and, more importantly, not to injure any OM player ahead of the UEFA Champions League
UEFA Champions League
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final.
He was later considered as a traitor by French supporters.
He was eventually awarded the FIFA Fair Play Award
FIFA Fair Play Award
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in 1995 for having revealed this bribery scandal.