OM Foundation: over 3,000 Puma kits offered to amateur clubs via the "OM Next Generation" programme

"With the health crisis, amateur clubs have been very hard hit. Aware of the difficulties they are facing, Olympique de Marseille (Ligue 1 Uber Eats), via its foundation, and Puma (the club's equipment manufacturer) have decided to offer full kits (shirts, shorts, socks) to the 22 OM Next Generation partner clubs (actually 21 clubs + FC La Castellane, which is not part of the programme)," announced the French club on 14/03/2021.

"Puma and the OM Foundation have decided together to donate more than 3,000 shirts to OM Next Generation partner clubs, to enable them to re-equip their children's categories so that they can start the 2021-22 season in the best possible conditions," said Franck Cardarelli, sports marketing partner manager at Puma.

Launched in October 2016 by Jacques-Henri Eyraud, the club's former president, "OM Next Generation" is a monitoring and scouting programme for players in the Marseille region aged between 8 and 15 years old and considered a "strong axis of the training centre". As of 15/03/2021, 20 clubs in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region and one club in the…