About Diadie Samassekou

During the detection phase before the final stage, Diadié Samassékou falls and breaks his thumb. The plaster that is placed on him goes from the hand to above the elbow.
The kid is worried and does not want to be handicapped during the final training camp, which was supposed to take place a few days later. Just before returning to the boarding school, at the “maison des jeunes” where the group is gathered for the duration of the internship, it is done by insisting, cutting a good part of the plaster placed to keep only a piece going up just above the wrist. The boy, the youngest of the nucleus then retained, already knew what he wanted and knew how to afford it.

Moreover, although Diadié was selected by JMG to participate in the final phase from his first participation, he was present on all the other recruitment fields to attend and volunteer to take part, led by Guindo to leave the Academy for the first time after having successfully completed the final course, because having initially had some difficulty getting used to the boarding school system specific to the JMG training philosophy, Diadié, who a few months later had regretted having reached this point, will express his desire to return, which probably seemed lost in advance, in view of the rules of the “Blue House”. But the self-denial of the kid who will come to Arsenal for this purpose (the pre-recruitment cell of the Academy then entrusted to Guindo) and the unconditional support of all his comrades at the house and their intervention with JMG, will allow him, at the end of a recruitment tournament in 2009, to become again JMG Mali Academician, for the future as we know it. The kid who, the first time, did not particularly appreciate the technical mastery juggling exercises will be on his second entry, one of those who were most involved in it. It shows today !