Gennaro Gattuso will direct Michael Amir Murillo

Italian It will be Gennaro Gattuso coach of Olympique de Marseille until the end of the season following the Spaniard’s resignation last week Marcelino García Toral, iThe club said yesterday.

Olympique de Marseille recently signed Panamanian Michael Amir Murillo, for which they will direct him Gennaro Gattuso.

2006 World Champion He signed an additional season as an option and will lead the team next Saturday in Monaco. In fact, he already plans to attend the team’s practice.

For the charismatic soccer player, a two-time champion, it was his ninth experience on the bench Europe with Milan, since he left football due to physical problems and started his coaching career in Switzerland in 2013, before passing Italy and Spain.
There he left his last instructions on the bench, that of Valencia, with a point that binds him Marcellin, who also came through the same club before joining Marseille.

As then in Valencia, Gattuso he arrives at the convulsive club, in full swing due to the conflict of the presidency, which he occupies Spanish Pablo Longoria on behalf of the owner, an American billionaire Frank McCourtand fan groups.

The conflict that caused the resignation of Marcelino and that accelerated the breaking of the technician who Olympic, seven in the last three years, with none permanently established since Frenchman Rudi Garcia between 2016 and 2019.

In search of a quick solution, Longoria also knocked on other doors, such as those of Christophe Galtier, former PSG player, eternal rival, but by birth and heart from Marseille, although he did not want to take over the club hands so hastily.

Spanish names were also heard Julen Lopetegui, from Dutchman Ruud Van Nistelrooy or from Italian Roberto Donadonibut finally she was chosen Gattuso, despite the fact that their results on the bench were irregular, when they did not end in resounding failures.

In the Swiss Sion or Italian Palermo, with his first clubs, he lasted only a few games, and his longest tenure was in Pisa, which he coached in the third league and left there after a short promotion to the second league.

In it Milan, club of his life, he began coaching the youth teams before taking over the management of the first team following the sacking of Vincenzo Montella. But the orphan of finance Silvio Berlusconi He barely completed a season and a half.

In it Naples He also failed to overcome iu Valencia He arrived in June 2022 and was fired last January without a good memory.
Marseille, however, pointed out that Gattuso qualified his teams for European Championship, between 2018 and 2021.
“His culture of winning, his ability to be in a context of intense pressure and his extensive experience at a high level allowed him to even win Italian Cup with Naplesafter several years without a title for the club,” recalled the French team.

“I am happy and proud to have joined Olympique de Marseille. The club and stadium where I played, known everywhere Europe because of the passion and ardor they exude. I am looking forward to starting work with my new group and facing the next challenges that await us, said the coach.
According to the orders of Jacques Abardadona, former club player and man of the house, the Marseilles last Sunday suffered the first defeat of the season, a humiliating 4-0 at the Park of the Princes of PSG, eternal rival and is eighth in the table.