Pape Diouf
Passionate, well-informed scribe. Pioneering player agent. Influential club chairman. All-round African trailblazer. Pape Diouf, who passed away aged 68 after contracting coronavirus, was truly a man for all seasons.
A Senegalese national and proud long-time resident of Marseille, he did not have just one sporting life, he had three: newspaper; the representative of a string of top African and French players; and a five-year term, from 2004 to 2009, calling the shots at Marseille, first as general manager, then as president.
