Soccer-Marseille aim to develop amputee football with new team

Jerome Raffetto, a soccer player from the Olympique de Marseille Amputee Football team, walks with a prosthetic leg after a training session at the OM Campus in Marseille, France, February 1, 2025. REUTERS/Manon Cruz

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Olympique de Marseille are no strangers to being trailblazers in French football and they have set yet another benchmark by becoming the first Ligue 1 club to establish an amputee football team.

This new side will play their first French championship match at the weekend in a four-team league which includes amputee teams set up by Ligue 2 clubs Annecy and Paris FC. Bouaye complete the league.