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Journalist
Graduated from School of Journalism in Paris. Specializing in football, and more particularly on the transfer window. Fan of PSG and Stade Français.
Appointed to the post of OM coach this summer, Roberto De Zerbi was attracted by Medhi Benatia who seems to have played a major role in this matter. And the Italian coach, reacting to the controversy in which the OM sports advisor currently finds himself, wanted to pay tribute to him by revealing behind the scenes of his arrival at the club.
After exploring different avenues such as Paulo Fonseca or even Sergio Conceiçãol’ABOUT finally scored another big hit in the trainer market this summer with Roberto By Zerbi. The Italian coach therefore came to succeed Jean-Louis Gasset on the bench of the Marseille club, and his profile was therefore favored by Medhi Benatiathe OM sports advisor. While the latter is the subject of a big controversy following his comments on refereeing last Sunday during the match betweenOL and theABOUT, By Zerbi made a point of giving him his support at a press conference.
“The best sports director I have known in my career”
« Mehdi Benatia is a very high level sports director, the best I have known in my career. I’m sorry he’s at the center of the controversy. I don’t think he needs me to defend him. Honestly, I saw what he said. I think he expressed himself in an educated, well-mannered manner. So I don’t see anything wrong with that. », confides By Zerbibefore revealing the major role of Benatia in his nomination to theABOUT this summer.
“I am here thanks to Benatia”
« Afterwards, for me, if I am here, it is as you know, thanks to him, thanks to Pablo (Longoria). So I will always support him. I really owe this arrival to him. I am once again saddened that he is at the heart of these controversies, controversies which in my opinion have no reason to exist », continues the coach of theABOUT.
