Overview
- Hours before Tuesday’s game, Real Madrid hosted an official lunch where the presidents posed with each club’s shirt.
- Olympique de Marseille’s Pablo Longoria presented a Marseille-made triplette of pétanque boules from La Boule Bleue.
- Real Madrid’s Florentino Pérez gave Longoria a painting, with shared photos not revealing the artwork’s subject.
- The pétanque set was engraved with the fixture and date and typically ends up in club museums or trophy rooms, the maker said.
- The exchange drew light reaction on social media, including a Marseille supporter’s quip about who would “have the boules” after the match.