Updated:01/03/2021 01: 36h
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Nasser Al-Khelaifi continues without seeing fulfilled the dream, the greatest of all, which led him to take control of the PSG at the end of 2011: the conquest of the Champions League. The Qatari billionaire had him closer than ever in August because Thomas Tuchel He led the team to the final of the last edition, but the Parisians ended up crashing in the decisive duel against Bayern. Only four months after the sheikh cherished the eternal desire, the German coach no longer sits on the bench in the Parc des Princes. Dismissed at the end of December, victim of poor results, the French team officially announced yesterday its replacement, Mauricio Pochettino. An acquaintance of the fans of the French league champion because the former defender played three years at PSG. Like his predecessors, the Argentine, who has signed until 2022 with the option of an extra season, is presented with the great challenge of trying to deliver the Champions League to Al-Khelaifi.
Pochettino, 48, had been on the market since he was dismissed by the Tottenham in November 2019. As in the case of Tuchel, also found in his skin that football does not live in the past, he was forced to leave the London club just a few months after qualifying for the Champions League final that took place at the Metropolitan Stadium in June of that year. Since his departure, the Argentine has not stopped sounding like a candidate for the bench of great clubs on the continent that have been forced to put out fires and his name was even insistently associated with him. Real Madrid when Zinedine Zidane was on the media target because of the results.
The coach who went on to say that I would never direct Barcelona and that in the polls he appeared as one of the favorites of the white parish for the future, he became yesterday the new leader of the dressing room of the PSG, a team in which he played between 2001 and 2003 and in which he came to wear the captain’s armband. «I am very happy and honored to become the new PSG manager. I thank the leaders of the club for the trust placed in me, “he said. «This club has always had a special place in my heart. I have wonderful memories and I return with great ambition and humility, “added Pochettino, who made his debut as a coach with the Spanish between 2009 and 2012, and that in the Premier League, in addition to Tottenham, He also took charge of the Southampton.
Despite the recognition he has earned for his work, Pochettino returns to Paris without having won a single title as a coach, although he has the endorsement of the philosophy that led the Barcelona board to think about his signing before opting for that of Quique Setién. The rejection caused in the Barça fans for his past at Espanyol, and not the absence of trophies, made Josep Maria Bartomeu will renounce the step taken now by PSG. “We are very happy to entrust the management of our team to Pochettino. I am proud that our former captain will return because PSG has always been his home and his return fits perfectly with our ambitions, “he said Al-Khelaifi. With the Argentine, the sheik rekindles the dream of the Champions League, in which Pochettino will have Barça as his rival in the second round. A very morbid duel.
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