After a year and a half on the benchOlympic Marseille, Jorge Sampaoli cut short his Marseille adventure on July 1, 2022. If the objectives were met for the Argentinian technician, the latter was unable to project himself and his ambitions were no longer in line with the means of theABOUT.
After the passage ofAndré Villas-Boas at theOlympic MarseilleIt is Jorge Sampaoli who took over the Marseille bench. The technician will have spent a year and a half in the south of France, and seems to have appreciated the country’s football: “ I have great memories of it. I discovered French football, a very dynamic football, different from what I knew, with this collective way of playing that I had to understand in this country. It was a challenge, and thanks to the players I had, I had a very good year“, he declared on the airwaves ofRMC in the show Rothen s’enflamme. Five days before the 27th day of Ligue 1 Uber Eats and the Classic between theABOUT and the PSG au Stade VélodromeJorge Sampaoli was relaunched on the reasons for his departure from theOlympic Marseilleand answered frankly: “ Simply, as I have already said, after being vice-champion of Ligue 1 and qualified in Champions Leaguewhich was the objective, I had other aspirations, I felt that the club did not have the means to fight against PSG, so I preferred, out of respect for the owner, the president, I preferred to step aside. I thought that to really progress, the club needed another type of player, and the club was not in the condition to bring them to me« .
2024-03-26 12:52:14
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