Zapping Foot National Interview – The underside of amateur football, with Romain Molina
A 2022/2023 season which left a bitter taste for all supporters. Olympique de Marseille chose to give Igor Tudor a chance on their bench. The former Juventus Turin assistant came out of a convincing season with Hellas Verona and discovered a whole new championship. And above all an angry people who whistled him from the first friendly matches because of the treatment reserved for Dimitri Payet. “I was obsessed with being competitive in the 2022-2023 Champions League. As a fourth hat team, I considered that we needed a vertical team to exist. It was a short-term ambition, certainly, but we didn’t get that far against Tottenham” Pablo Longoria said in recent hours during an interview with our colleagues from L’Équipe.
“This style of play works against the big European teams. You can do it with this weapon. But over a three-year cycle, you have to switch to the innovative, modern side, look around for player positions. If you want to increase your level, this type of football develops young players much more easily, makes them grow around the knowledge of the game” continues the president of Olympique de Marseille. According to the Spaniard, “this Tudor turn, with a very radical idea, which I love, mind you, cost us time. It penalized us, not during Igor’s season, but during the next.” The club from the Marseille city then finished eighth after changing coaches several times.
To summarize
A 2022/2023 season which left a bitter taste for all supporters. Olympique de Marseille chose to give Igor Tudor a chance on their bench. The former Juventus Turin assistant came out of a convincing season with Hellas Verona and discovered a whole new championship. And above all an angry people who whistled him from the first friendly matches because of the treatment reserved for Dimitri Payet.
