Born

Bastia, Haute-Corse, France

Biography

Pascal Olmeta (born 7 April 1961) is a French former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Marseille and Lyon in the 1990s. Pascal Olmeta was born on 7 April 1961 in Bastia, Corsica. Olmeta is married with two daughters. In 2016, Olmeta drew criticism after video footage from 2011 surfaced showing him shooting an elephant in the head before posing "proudly" with the corpse. He defended the footage stating he had shot the animal because of overpopulation in Zimbabwe, and all income from hunting was being used to help local people. Source: Article "Pascal Olmeta" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.