From her duvet to the flag hanging on the wall, not forgetting her tap shoes, everything is white and blue, bearing the Olympique de Marseille logo. “There, I feel like at home”, he slips proudly by putting on his jersey. Even more than 9,000 km from Marseille, where he was born and raised. A glance at his Californian apartment in Encinitas, a coastal town of 60,000 inhabitants between San Diego and Los Angeles, and one understands the pure « lifestyle californien » of Vincent Matheron for three years, the one that makes so many riders dream. Surfboards are piled in a corner, screws and trucks lie on the carpet next to his sponsor’s caps. On a shelf, clothes left there by his friend and France teammate Aurélien Giraud, who often stays here during his visits to the United States.