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Journalist
Passionate about football since a young age, becoming a sports journalist quickly became obvious to Hugo. He would later discover a love for the NBA, before exploring other horizons such as Formula 1 and the NFL.
Shortly after the takeover of the club by Frank McCourt, Rudi Garcia was appointed coach of OM in October 2016, where he succeeded Franck Passi and whom he left in 2019. But when Jacques-Henri Eyraud contacted him , the French technician was initially not very excited about this possibility.
A few days after the club passed under the flag of Frank McCourt in October 2016, theABOUT has retained the services of Rudi Garcia. The latter will stay almost three years in Marseille, which he led to the final of the Europa League in 2018, but where he did not really want to go, at least at the beginning.
Garcia was not ready to coach OM
« Eyraud is the one who calls me saying “I’m part of the takeover project with McCourt, we would like you to be the coach”. I said: “A priori no, but I can watch” “, declared Rudi Garciain an interview with the media Carré.
“I found that perhaps it didn’t suit me 100% on the volcanic side”
Indeed, he believed that theABOUT did not correspond to him: “ Why not at the beginning? I found that perhaps it didn't suit me 100% on the volcanic side. And then I met normal people. Jacques-Henri Eyraud the first. »
