Rolando Aarons: The Global Odyssey of Football’s Nearly-Man, Now Rebooting in Marseille
PARIS—In a city that has canonised Zidane’s volley, fetishised Mbappé’s pace, and generally treated every misplaced pass as an existential crisis, a modest training-pitch reunion last week managed to feel both trivial and oddly resonant. Rolando Aarons—yes, that Rolando Aarons, the human highlight-reel Newcastle once kept in bubble-wrap—was spotted jogging alongside Olympique Marseille’s reserves, trying…